“When, Miller wondered, does someone stop being human? There had to be a moment, some decision that you made and before it, you were one person, and after it, someone else…If he’d seen it in someone else—Muss, Havelock, Sematimba—he wouldn’t have taken more than a minute to realize they’d gone off the rails. Since it was him, he had taken longer to notice. But Holden was right. Somewhere along the line, he’d lost himself.”

— Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 28 (p. 284)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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