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810fed7
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Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.
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Daniel Abraham |
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You can order the sun to come up if you time it right.
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Daniel Abraham |
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5bd7f74
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Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.""I admire your psychotic optimism."
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Daniel Abraham |
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There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about.
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Daniel Abraham |
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d07e3bb
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From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.
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Daniel Abraham |
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762f75b
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She isn't stupid, but she's learning to fake it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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d588d25
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She grinned to herself. Safe. That sounded like a good plan. She should try that for a change.
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Daniel Abraham |
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He wasn't a man who reined in his curiosity well.
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Daniel Abraham |
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e6773a0
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A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it's too late.
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Daniel Abraham |
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2c056a9
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If we're not willing to win the fight, I'm not sure what we're doing in the cage.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Dying's not an art project.""Maybe it should be."
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Daniel Abraham |
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She'd ended with I'll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged.
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Daniel Abraham |
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If wars began with rage, they ended with exhaustion.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Politics is the art of the possible, Captain Pa. When you play at our level, grudges cost lives.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Time healed all wounds, but it didn't erase the scars so much as decorate them.
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Daniel Abraham |
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b0c79d3
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Collaboration with the dead left questions that could never be answered.
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Daniel Abraham |
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She couldn't beat sense into a stone. Not even when it seemed fun to try.
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Daniel Abraham |
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All the food chemists in the system will never do better than evolution at making a decent tea leaf.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Everyone spies on everyone, Camina. Let's not pretend to be outraged at water for being wet.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Put a dozen people in front of their cameras, and you'd wind up with thirteen opinions.
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Daniel Abraham |
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cdb032f
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Patriotism was weird shit.
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Daniel Abraham |
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b95a73a
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That says more about you than about the reality of things.
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Daniel Abraham |
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The universe was tricky, and its sense of humor came with teeth.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Still. She had hoped. It never hurt to hope, except when it did.
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Daniel Abraham |
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531f695
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The universe owed her a little slice of luck like that.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Every revolution needed its mad bombers, apparently.
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Daniel Abraham |
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It was a day with a lot of ways to die packed in it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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d16d08c
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The fight for survival made everything either resilient or forgotten.
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Daniel Abraham |
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fd78beb
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The universe wasn't just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.
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Daniel Abraham |
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e3e5e56
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Pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.
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Daniel Abraham |
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There had to have been a moment when this had become the new normal.
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Daniel Abraham |
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It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building.
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Daniel Abraham |
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That was somewhere between a guess and a metaphor, but it helped her to think about it.
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Daniel Abraham |
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This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies.
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Daniel Abraham |
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I'm not sure if dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.
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Daniel Abraham |
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I'm sorry," Elvi said. "Wait. No. I'm actually not. Are you fucking crazy?"
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Daniel Abraham |
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It had seemed like a kind of magnanimity at the time. It looked more like necessity now.
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Daniel Abraham |
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That's what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.
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Daniel Abraham |
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This was stupid.It was worse that stupid. It was dishonest.
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Daniel Abraham |
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2cdc910
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That was the thing about hubris. It only became clear in retrospect.
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Daniel Abraham |
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The chime rang, calling them all to the dining room like the most privileged cattle in the universe.
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Daniel Abraham |
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She'd been a different girl then. He'd been a different man. She missed both of them.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Holden's a decent person. Decent people have trouble with murdering children.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Time for more smiling lies. More veiled threats. More--and he used the word as an epithet--diplomacy.
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Daniel Abraham |