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“There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 39 (p. 400)

Thinking

“It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 34 (p. 345)

God

“I hate that it breaks down that way. Your side and mine. One of my teachers back in school always used to say that contagion was the one absolute proof of community. People could pretend there weren’t drug users and prostitutes and unvaccinated children all they wanted, but when the plague came through, all that mattered was who was actually breathing your air.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 27 (p. 277)

School , Hate , Children , People

“Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 22 (p. 219)

Making love

“We’re the ones who followed the rules here. We came with science teams and a hard dome. We hired them to build our landing platform, and they killed us. We’re the good guys here.”

Daniel Abraham

“And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.”
Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 15 (p. 156)

Science , Guy

“Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 6 (p. 64)

“Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Cibola Burn (2014), Chapter 5 (p. 55)

Secret

“She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.”

Daniel Abraham

Abaddon's Gate (2013), Epilogue (p. 538)

Evil

“Holden yelled in frustration. The universe kept waiting until he was thoroughly beaten, then tossing him a nibble of hope only to yank it away again.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 50 (p. 509)

Universe , Hope , Waiting

“They’d made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they’d hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 47 (p. 475)

Way , Hope

“When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 46 (p. 472)

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 44 (p. 444)

Idea , Thinking , People

“He still wasn’t sure whether he believed it was true, even. But right now, it needed to be, and so it was.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 41 (p. 423)

“We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I’ll fight you now.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 39 (p. 404)

Time , Help , Thinking , Stupidity

“After a certain point, the past becomes irrelevant.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 38 (pp. 387-388)

Past

“I’m getting a medal for falling into a pressure hatch, sacrificing an arm and a leg to keep seven sailors from being trapped in a compromised part of the ship. I was unconscious at the time, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 32 (p. 338)

Time , People , Thinking , Relation ships

“History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 32 (p. 335)

People , History

“If you’re aiming not to creep me the hell out, you need more practice.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 25 (p. 264)

Hell

“It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 22 (p. 230)

Feeling

“Traveling between the planets had never eliminated murder. So many highly evolved primates in the same box for months on end, a certain death rate had to be expected.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 14 (p. 148)

Travel , Death , Box