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Daniel Abraham _ The Spider's War
The story of a person could never be as complex as they actually were because then it would take as much time to know someone as it did to be them. Reputation, even when deserved, inevitably meant simplification, and every simplification deformed.
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Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood
justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible.
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Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood
What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed.
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Daniel Abraham _ A Shadow in Summer
I've never told Liat. About who I am. Do you think ... Maati, can you love someone and not trust them?""We're born to odd lives, Otah-kvo," Maati said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone.
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Daniel Abraham _ A Shadow in Summer
And what's the difference between us, that you'll brush his sins aside and not my own?"Maati smiled. "You aren't him," he said."And you love him."Maati took a pose of affirmation."And love is more important than justice," Seedless said."Sometimes. Yes."Seedless smiled and nodded."What a terrible thought," he said. "That love and injustice should be married.
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Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood
You only have to enforce boundaries where they're being imposed,
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Daniel Abraham _ The Widow's House
speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgment.
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Daniel Abraham _ The Dragon's Path
I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile."But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?""Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. I don't believe we can say that.
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Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood
The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would require not only an understanding of the draconic mind lost to humanity {if indeed it were ever available}, but also a comprehension of the particular form of madness which took him in the violent days that ended his reign. Certain facts are known: that Morade's clutch-mates contested his selection to the throne, that the battle between them raged for three human generations, that their end marked the opening of the ages of humanity. But these are generalities. Vagaries
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Daniel Abraham _ A Shadow in Summer
There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in the soft quarter. I mean to take it from him.
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Daniel Abraham _ The Spider's War
A monstrous talent that could do anything because no one had managed to convince it of what was impossible.
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Daniel Abraham _ The Spider's War
When you start talking about killed friends and lost babies, justice and revenge are two names for the same dog."
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