“Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.”

—  Daniel Abraham

Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 8 (p. 87)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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