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I don't think "cold" or "cold-hearted" are really fitting descriptions of Garrus. Aside from not having the Spectre status to "justify" his actions, he's not really doing anything much different from what a Paragon Shep. does. For instance, the batarian bartender who poisons Shep., the Paragon-point enabled charm ability let's you incite the crowd against the bartender and get him killed. Shep. isn't an idiot, so if even I knew that was going to be the likely outcome of inciting them in this manner, I'm sure Shep. knows and that would qualify as calculating in my book, but it's not "cold" or "cold-hearted" because the bottom line is that the guy is a serial killer and the "authorities" (not that there appear to be any on Omega) are obviously not doing or going to do anything about it. You can't just leave him to kill everyone he comes across and doesn't like. It's still calculating, but it's not "evil" or renegade or "cold-hearted". I don't see that Garrus' attempts to stop the mercs from harming innocent civilians is hugely different. Sure he's actually physically fighting them himself, but you can hardly say they're not armed (heck, they even have a gunship) and it's not like he can get them arrested by the non-existant Omega police.
As for Sidonis, I think Garrus' impulse is understandable given that he knows the police can do nothing about it (as evidenced by the fact that if you stop Garrus and go to the Citadel, you hear Sidonis has turned himself in but c-sec can't even do anything about it then, leaving Sidonis to figure out his own means of penance). And it's not like it's a chess game where figures get knocked out and you can say "good move" to your opponent... people got killed. Really, I think it shows that Garrus is *not* cold-hearted that he backs off when he sees that Sidonis is wracked with guilt about what he's done. If he were cold-hearted he'd have said "ok let him go" and then shot him anyway as soon as he was clear of Shep. Again, I have to say the whole thing isn't that much dif. from things Shep. does... pretend to be a merc ally and then shoot the guys who crossed the bridge ahead of you in the back, that's pretty darn calculating and "cold" as well.
I think Garrus has a very strong sense of justice and an instinct to protect people, sometimes he just needs someone to go "hey, there's another way we can handle this" (but of course he'll run with it if the person instead says "that's the way to do it Garrus, eye for an eye"). I guess for me, cold or cold-hearted would mean he doesn't care if there is another way, and he doesn't care who gets hurt in the process (ie. if he has to mow down the entire terminal full of people to get Sidonis, that's fine too).
I also don't think Garrus is a racist. If he were actually racist, he sure wouldn't be running of with a human and taking a human's orders. He is prejudiced based on the past actions of certain peoples, certainly, quarians made the geth, krogans tried to expand all over the place through war, etc., but he doesn't refuse to work with any of them, he doesn't refuse to interact with them, he doesn't throw around slurs about them (as a matter of fact he talks to them directly and factually about the issues he has with the past actions of their peoples) and in the end he obviously judges them on their merit as individual people (the interaction between him and Tali in several areas of ME2 clearly show that they're friends). Comparing that to actual racists I've run into... I'd say he's not a racist
And finally, the initiating line of the romance. I actually liked it or, better said, found it more realistic for Shep/Garrus than the "I don't know if it's love but I feel something"(Thane) or "is it time to move things along a little faster"(Jacob) lines, but that could be just because of my personal experience. The one time I noticed that I had developed more than friendly feelings for a friend of mine I also initiated the "maybe we could be more than friends" talk with a flirty line/joke off something he said. Everything else I thought of seemed really forced or awkward and left little room for him to indicate he didn't feel the same way without the situation becoming weird or unpleasant. I guess, in my imagination of how my Shep. is as a person, it also fit her character well because I don't think she does awkwardness well, but deadpan serious as she is "at work" (most of the time
) she jokes around enough with Joker and the others on the side to convince me she's actually a well-disguised barrel of laughs 
and Garrus also seems to communicate things with jokes a lot, so for me it fit in that romance (though it wouldn't have in the others).
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My main Shepard is Paragade, and I think Garrus probably is too.
