Daniel Abraham quotes

Annie, If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my husband. (Daniel Abraham)
The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending. View quote
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It was a real book-onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. View quote
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There's a right thing to do,” Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend,” Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong. View quote
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Liquor doesn't make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad. View quote
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It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa. View quote
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There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him? View quote
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The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of 'em. View quote
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Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went. View quote
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He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit. View quote
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"See, this is why I can't ever be in command,” she said. "Don't like making tough calls with incomplete information?” "More I'm not suicidally irresponsible,” she replied. (Daniel Abraham)
Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized. View quote
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She didn't care. Not caring was how she got through the day. View quote
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If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in. View quote
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All bluster, no balls. View quote
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That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all human power was changing, and the models she used to make sense of it shifted with them, and she had to keep reminding herself that the past was a different place. She didn't live there anymore. View quote
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But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them. View quote
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They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they'd work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn't something he'd ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work. View quote
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From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment. View quote
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Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don't ask questions. View quote
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I was listening to Tim Powers talking and he said he didn't want his villains just defeated, he wanted them humiliated and destroyed. And I thought: 'I don't. I want my villains to be understood and forgiven. (Daniel Abraham)
If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known. Odd that it should feel almost like relief. View quote
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Stop,” Holden said. "I don't care. I don't want to hear any more of your stories about how being a cop makes you wiser and deeper and able to face the truth about humanity. As far as I can tell, all it did was break you. Okay?” "Yeah, okay.” "Dresden and his Protogen buddies thought they could choose who lives and who dies. That sound familiar? And don't tell me it's different this time, because everyone says that, every time. And it's not. View quote
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He considered recording it. His suit would be able to make a simple visual file and stream the data out in real time. But no. This was his moment. His and Julia's. The rest of humanity could guess what it had been like if they cared. View quote
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Too many dots,” Miller said. "Not enough lines. View quote
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