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“I’ve been through a lot of hearings about one damn thing and another. Most of the time they’re exercises in ass covering. If the unvarnished truth ever came out at one, it would be because someone screwed up.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 9 (pp. 93-94)

Truth , Time , Exercises

“The rich scent of well-balanced soil was like incense.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 76)

“The mirror plummeting toward the surface of Ganymede—toward his greenhouse, his soybeans, his life’s work—hadn’t chosen anything. It was a victim of cause and effect, the same as everything else.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 3 (p. 26)

Life

“Humanity was so flawed. Not just her, but everyone. Half the population was below average intelligence. Half below average dedication. Average adherence to duty. The cruel law of statistics. It was astounding that as a race they’d managed as much as they had.”

Daniel Abraham

Epilogue (p. 525)
Nemesis Games (2015)

Intelligence , Law

“Things changed, and they didn’t change back. But sometimes they got better.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 51 (p. 519)

Change

“Sometimes when we make these distinctions, we’re really creating them more than describing anything that’s already there.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 48 (p. 488)

Making love

“He wasn’t a man who reined in his curiosity well.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 47 (p. 476)

“It’s good being young,” he said, “but some people wear it better than others.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 42 (p. 432)

People

“There was no amount of double-checking that would ever prove that nothing had been missed.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 36 (p. 379)

“Amazing how much we’ve managed to do, considering how we’re doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 31 (p. 325)

Behavior

“Thing is, we’re humans. We’re tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 30 (p. 317)

People , Country

“Thing about civilization, it’s what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 30 (p. 316)

People

“I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it’s not obvious what that is.”

Daniel Abraham

“I agree with you,” Holden said. “Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 28 (p. 298)

Time

“That sounds like post hoc realpolitik rationalizing bullshit.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 28 (p. 298)

“History’s made of surprises that seem obvious in retrospect.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 28 (p. 296)

History

“The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn’t needed to destroy humanity. They’d given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they’d leaped on it.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 27 (pp. 291-292)

“I never thought I’d feel wind again. I never thought I’d be outside. It’s so beautiful.”

Daniel Abraham

Amos glanced around the ruins and shrugged. “That’s got a lot to do with context, I guess.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 26 (p. 280)

Beauty , Feeling

“You are a special flower.”

Daniel Abraham

“Well, sure. Just not used to anybody appreciating it.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 24 (p. 255)

Flowers

“You think we’re going to die?”
“Yup.”
“Of this?”

Daniel Abraham

“Maybe.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 24 (p. 252)

Thinking

“In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 21 (p. 223)