Daniel Abraham quotes - page 2

That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing. (Daniel Abraham)
When, Miller wondered, does someone stop being human? There had to be a moment, some decision that you made and before it, you were one person, and after it, someone else...If he'd seen it in someone else-Muss, Havelock, Sematimba-he wouldn't have taken more than a minute to realize they'd gone off the rails. Since it was him, he had taken longer to notice. But Holden was right. Somewhere along the line, he'd lost himself. View quote
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He couldn't fix the cancer of war, couldn't even slow down the spread, but at least he could admit it was happening. View quote
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It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult. View quote
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"We regret the necessity of this action,” she said to everyone everywhere. "But in the cause of freedom, there can be no compromise.” That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free. View quote
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This was the kind of man who'd killed Julie, Miller thought. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. View quote
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Holden decided that he was okay with not feeling any remorse for them. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead. View quote
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Never knew if you had any luck left unless you pushed it. View quote
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There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about. View quote
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It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless. View quote
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I hate that it breaks down that way. Your side and mine. One of my teachers back in school always used to say that contagion was the one absolute proof of community. People could pretend there weren't drug users and prostitutes and unvaccinated children all they wanted, but when the plague came through, all that mattered was who was actually breathing your air. (Daniel Abraham)
Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit. View quote
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Everything was an artifact of its function. That's what made evolution so gorgeous. View quote
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Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told. View quote
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She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. View quote
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Holden yelled in frustration. The universe kept waiting until he was thoroughly beaten, then tossing him a nibble of hope only to yank it away again. View quote
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They'd made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they'd hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified. View quote
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When what came next didn't matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences. View quote
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Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face. View quote
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He still wasn't sure whether he believed it was true, even. But right now, it needed to be, and so it was. View quote
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We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I'll fight you now. (Daniel Abraham)
After a certain point, the past becomes irrelevant. View quote
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I'm getting a medal for falling into a pressure hatch, sacrificing an arm and a leg to keep seven sailors from being trapped in a compromised part of the ship. I was unconscious at the time, but that doesn't seem to matter. Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they'd never do if they were really thinking about it. View quote
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History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster. View quote
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If you're aiming not to creep me the hell out, you need more practice. View quote
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