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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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trust
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this differe..
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seasons
death
renewal
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That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations."
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Daniel Abraham |
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To lose everything is not the worst that can happen." "It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing."
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Daniel Abraham |
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Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.' 'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from it's p..
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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."
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Daniel Abraham |
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Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.
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morality
politics
justice
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Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we'd slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don't. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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Some errors you can only see once you've committed them.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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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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war
morality
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How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?
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Daniel Abraham |
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Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.
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Daniel Abraham |
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I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance."
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Daniel Abraham |
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We drink to the gods," Amiit said, raising his bowl. "May they never drink to us."
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Daniel Abraham |
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I've never see God," Yardem said. "But you believe in him," Master Kit said. "I'm reserving judgement."
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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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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Daniel Abraham |
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The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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Daniel Abraham |
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Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Has it ever struck you people how arrogant you are?" it asked, huge hands taking an attitude of query that bordered on accusation. "You're talking of slaughtering a nation. Thousands of innocent people destroyed, lands made barren, mountains leveled and the sea pulled up over them like a blanket. And you're feeling sorry for yourself that you had to wring a bird's neck as a boy? How can anyone have feelings that delicate and that numbed bot..
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I find a certain value in lightness.
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Daniel Abraham |
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Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.
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Daniel Abraham |
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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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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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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
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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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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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Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.
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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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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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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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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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