Daniel Abraham: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Realizing you’ve got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 20 (p. 209)

“Secrecy is the potting soil in which all this conspiracy shit grows. Trust me. The roaches don’t like it when you start shining a light on them.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 13 (p. 140)

Light

“Long story, but the point is that if you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they’re horses, not zebras. And you’re hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to unicorns.”
“So what are you saying?”

Daniel Abraham

“I’m saying let’s go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 8 (p. 86)

Horse

“Like the roaches and the rats, ants had learned to live with their human neighbors without much trouble. When the concrete of human cities spread across the globe and half the animals on Earth were on endangered lists, no one had worried about the ants. They were doing fine, thanks, and spilled fast food was just as plentiful and delicious as dead forest animals had once been.
Adapt or die.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 4 (p. 42)

Animals , Learning , Dead , Food

“So you’re trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?”

Daniel Abraham

“Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 3 (p. 36)

“Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 3 (p. 33)

Secret

“We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 1 (p. 20)

“She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 51 (p. 514)

Soul , Life

“She wanted to care, but she didn’t. She didn’t have time.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 32 (p. 338)

Time

“She knew intellectually that he was beautiful, the way the iridescent wings of a carrion fly would be.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 29 (p. 309)

Way , Beauty , Flying

“The only right you have with anyone in life is the right to walk away.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 25 (p. 270)

Life

“Alex’s experience of real family—of blood relations—was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 15 (p. 163)

Family , People , Relation ships

“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 8 (p. 92)

Question

“Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 7 (p. 76)

Sense

“You think you know what I am, she thought, but all you’ve got is stories.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 21 (p. 222)

Thinking

“Holden couldn’t tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 5 (p. 56)

Problem

“She could remember the girl she used to be with fondness, but it wasn’t a youth she cared to recapture.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 3 (p. 34)

Girl , Youth

“Just once I’d like to be rewarded for my optimistic view of humanity.”

Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 1 (p. 18)

“The several unexamined assumptions in the argument remained unexamined.”

Daniel Abraham

The Churn (2014)

“Two points defined a line, but three defined the playing field.”

Daniel Abraham

The Churn (2014)