Daniel Abraham Short Quotes

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Never knew if you had any luck left unless you pushed it.

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She didn't care. Not caring was how she got through the day.

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Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized.

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It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.

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Liquor doesn't make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.

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He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit.

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The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of 'em.

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Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

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The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.

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If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.

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He couldn't fix the cancer of war, couldn't even slow down the spread, but at least he could admit it was happening.

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There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?

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It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.

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That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.

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There's a right thing to do, Holden said.
You don't have a right thing, friend, Miller said. You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

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This was the kind of man who'd killed Julie, Miller thought. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been.

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If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known.
Odd that it should feel almost like relief.

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See, this is why I can't ever be in command, she said.
Don't like making tough calls with incomplete information?
More I'm not suicidally irresponsible, she replied.

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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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He probed himself like a doctor searching for inflammation. Did it hurt here? Did he feel the loss there?
He didn't. There was only a sense of relief so profound it approached giddiness.

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