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And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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3d2774f
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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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fate
love
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Daniel Abraham |
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6c44146
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Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.
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Daniel Abraham |
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383af09
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if you think you are too small to make a change, try to sleep in a room with one mosquito!
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Daniel Abraham |
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634d0de
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Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.
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Daniel Abraham |
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e544efd
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You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it's too late.
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Daniel Abraham |
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a62e6ee
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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869d98a
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And again the news offered no news: On CNN, a rerun of Larry King interviewing the widowed and the suffering. On CNN2, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a fatherless son. On CNN3, a rerun of Flight 11 flying toward the first tower, in slow motion. On CNN4, a rerun of the tower collapsing, in slow motion, and again the towers fell, again people jumped and died. On CNN5, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a motherless daughter, a daughterles..
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Pearl Abraham |
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Gargantuan figure. Almost seven feet tall, he had great physical strength and remarkable manual dexterity, and his interests were astonishingly broad. He claimed to have mastered fourteen trades as well as surgery and dentistry. When courtiers and servants took sick they tried to conceal it from Peter, for if he thought that medical attention was needed he would gather his instruments and offer his services. Among his personal belongings Pe..
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Abraham Ascher |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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cecfc0e
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I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow can't be worse than today was." "Possibility is a wide field, dear. Can't is a word for small imaginations."
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.
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Daniel Abraham |
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I am scared, when I first go to cities. I think I am never fit in, never belong. All this worry I make. And is nothing. To lose everything is not the worst can happen.'
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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In a better world, he thought, I'd have followed that man to hell.
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Daniel Abraham |
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7253281
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious.
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Daniel Abraham |
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28400cd
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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When you start talking about killed friends and lost babies, justice and revenge are two names for the same dog.
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Daniel Abraham |
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A monstrous talent that could do anything because no one had managed to convince it of what was impossible.
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Daniel Abraham |
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1d438ee
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As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step"
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Jay Abraham |
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There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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133a2be
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The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would require not only an understanding of the draconic mind lost to humanity (if indeed it were ever available), but also a comprehension of the particular form of madness which took him in the violent days that ended his reign. Certain facts are known: that Morade's clutch-mates contested his selection to the throne, t..
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Daniel Abraham |
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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. Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile. "But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?" "Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent an..
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epistemology
skepticism
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Daniel Abraham |
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speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgment.
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Daniel Abraham |
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You only have to enforce boundaries where they're being imposed,
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Daniel Abraham |
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And what's the difference between us, that you'll brush his sins aside and not my own?" Maati smiled. "You aren't him," he said. "And you love him." Maati took a pose of affirmation. "And love is more important than justice," Seedless said. "Sometimes. Yes." Seedless smiled and nodded. "What a terrible thought," he said. "That love and injustice should be married."
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible.
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Daniel Abraham |
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The story of a person could never be as complex as they actually were because then it would take as much time to know someone as it did to be them. Reputation, even when deserved, inevitably meant simplification, and every simplification deformed.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Just once I'd like to be rewarded for my optimistic view of humanity.
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Daniel Abraham |
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7e0776e
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We're still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Naomi couldn't tell if she was more astounded by how much things had changed or how little.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.
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Daniel Abraham |
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You look old, Fred.""I feel old. But it's better than the alternative."
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Daniel Abraham |
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You can tell you've found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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You think you know what I am, she thought, but all you've got is stories.
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Daniel Abraham |
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You are a special flower.""Well, sure. Just not used to anybody appreciating it."
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Daniel Abraham |
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History's made of surprises that seem obvious in retrospect.
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Daniel Abraham |