Top 60 Daniel Abraham Quotes
#1. There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
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#2. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.
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#3. Love is noble," the magistra said. "And so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren't so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.
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#4. There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.
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#5. We drink to the gods," Amiit said, raising his bowl. "May they never drink to us.
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#6. Losing everything was still losing everything, however little someone began with.
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#7. It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn't matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn't care anymore.
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#8. The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous.
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#9. She stepped toward him, her hand on his shoulder. He took her fingers in his, kissing her gently without even being aware that he was doing so. Affection was a habit between them, more genuine for being unconsidered.
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#10. In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced.
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#11. Did we win?" Salan asked as Karol stood. "Hell yes, we did," Karol said, glad that he didn't have to lie to say it. "You just stay there and wait your turn. And don't get impatient. We don't rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes." "Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir.
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#12. What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed.
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#13. Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.
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#14. Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations.
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#15. As far as I can tell, life's just one flaming piece of shit after another, except when it's a bunch of them all at once. But
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#16. Every war was the precursor for the wars that followed, a slaughter that justified the slaughters to come. And
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#17. I've never see God," Yardem said.
"But you believe in him," Master Kit said.
"I'm reserving judgement.
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#18. In a better world, he thought, I'd have followed that man to hell.
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#19. I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance.
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#20. I find that unless we are very, very careful there can be a difference between who we are and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. I
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#21. How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?
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#22. To lose everything is not the worst that can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.
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#23. Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it.
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#24. I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this,
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#25. Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.
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#26. Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.
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#27. Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
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#28. To lose everything is not the worst can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing," Otah said.
"Is exactly this," Maj agreed, then a moment later. "Starting again, and doing better.
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#29. She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.
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#30. It doesn't matter what you've done or seen. Every man's a child until he's a father. It's the way the world's made.
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#31. There's only one utter ending for each of us, and it isn't one we reach toward. Until then, it's the next change, and the next change, and the next. And profound change, even when it's the one you prayed for, is displacing.
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#32. And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.
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#33. Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. (Another Word: Plausibility and Truth
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#34. Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.
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#35. Love,' Asa said, 'is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.'
'How so?'
'Where it lands hasn't got much to do with who deserves it.
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#36. Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.
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#37. Can you love someone you don't trust?"
"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.
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#39. Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.
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#40. I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
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#41. Danat was asking if we had any other books," Maati said.
"You have all of them," the boy said, awe I'm his voice.
Maati chuckled, and then felt the mirth and simple pleasure fade.
"Yes," he said. "Yes, we have all of them.
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#42. We did an evil thing, father."
"What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.
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#43. You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it's too late.
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#44. How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.
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#45. As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
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#46. Some errors you can only see once you've committed them.
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#47. I've never told Liat. About who I am. Do you think ... Maati, can you love someone and not trust them?"
"We're born to odd lives, Otah-kvo," Maati said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone.
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#48. People love their fathers. Their sisters. People love dogs or songs or poems. If I've got to be the champion of something, make it something that doesn't change what it means every time someone says it.
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#49. We only understand other people by imagining what we would do in their position. What
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#50. I'm not drunk," Cithrin said. "You aren't," Yardem agreed. "Then why can't I have another glass?" "Because that's how you stay not drunk.
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#51. Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.
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#52. We say our souls want joy, but they don't," she said. "They want what they already know, joyful or not.
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#53. Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.
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#54. That's the whole world. You. Me. The sea, the sky. Every retching thing there is. It's all a dream the dragons dream, and if the last dragon ever wakes up, we're fu*ked. (pg. 12)
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#55. It was the fate of all reforms that they turned against the reformers.
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#57. Children are who they are. I may love them all, but I know them too. Their feet are as much clay as my own. It hardly matters what path we've walked to become what we are. Whatever it was, we've walked it.
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#58. Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.
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#59. There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in the soft quarter. I mean to take it from him.
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#60. It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.
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