Daniel Abraham: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Annie, If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my husband.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate, Chapter 5 (p. 52)

(2013)

Indifference

“If Fred couldn’t build himself a peace treaty, the OPA would never win against the discipline and unity of an inner planet navy. But they would also never lose. War without end.
Well, what was history if not that?
And how would having the stars change anything?”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 46 (p. 467)

War , Peace , History , Star

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 184)

Beauty

“It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 14 (p. 150)

Books , Idea

“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.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 36 (p. 363)

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 42 (p. 427)

Feeling

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 194)

Problem

“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?”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 38 (p. 379)

Life

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 11 (p. 113)

Guy , Sense , Training

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 45 (p. 457)

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 50 (p. 504)

Strong

““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.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 17 (pp. 178-179)

Suicide

“Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“She didn’t care. Not caring was how she got through the day.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 170)

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

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 2 (p. 21)

Color

“All bluster, no balls.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 228)

“That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all human power was changing, and the models she used to make sense of it shifted with them, and she had to keep reminding herself that the past was a different place. She didn’t live there anymore.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Epilogue (p. 576)

Sense , Past , Making love , Change

“But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 48 (p. 491)

Life

“They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they’d work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn’t something he’d ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 47 (p. 481)

Life , Thinking , Time

“From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 45 (p. 458)

Fear