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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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016a4f5
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Every revolution needed its mad bombers, apparently.
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Daniel Abraham |
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67fa570
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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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33bfc39
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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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26494b4
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It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building.
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Daniel Abraham |
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78fca3f
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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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efafa04
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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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6dec2f1
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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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92275f6
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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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44ae9aa
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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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4041b90
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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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fae4c06
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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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1d53b83
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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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7688952
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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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9ad2a2d
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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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234594f
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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 |
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b941bad
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Fatalism had its dark attractions, after all. Hopelessness and despair could almost look restful.
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Daniel Abraham |
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fe03a59
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The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.
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Daniel Abraham |
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f420a88
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Anyone could die at any time, and the universe didn't give a shit.
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Daniel Abraham |
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2fdf54e
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Owning your mistakes meant not making them twice.
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Daniel Abraham |
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49060f4
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Seems like the right tentacle ain't keeping track of what the left tentacle's up to," Amos said.
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Daniel Abraham |
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03c220a
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She was reaching for supernatural answers when memory and mundanity were enough.
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Daniel Abraham |
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b660ac1
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Optimism is for assholes," Miller said with a laugh.
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Daniel Abraham |
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02815c7
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Nothing humans can touch goes unmodified.
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Daniel Abraham |