“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)

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