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The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.
Daniel Abraham
It was a real book-onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.
Daniel Abraham
There's a right thing to do,” Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend,” Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.
Daniel Abraham
Liquor doesn't make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.
Daniel Abraham
It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.
Daniel Abraham
There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?
Daniel Abraham
The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of 'em.
Daniel Abraham
Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.
Daniel Abraham
He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit.
Daniel Abraham
Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized.
Daniel Abraham
She didn't care. Not caring was how she got through the day.
Daniel Abraham
If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.
Daniel Abraham
All bluster, no balls.
Daniel Abraham
That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all human power was changing, and the models she used to make sense of it shifted with them, and she had to keep reminding herself that the past was a different place. She didn't live there anymore.
Daniel Abraham
But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them.
Daniel Abraham
They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they'd work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn't something he'd ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.
Daniel Abraham
From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.
Daniel Abraham
Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don't ask questions.
Daniel Abraham
If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known. Odd that it should feel almost like relief.
Daniel Abraham
Stop,” Holden said. "I don't care. I don't want to hear any more of your stories about how being a cop makes you wiser and deeper and able to face the truth about humanity. As far as I can tell, all it did was break you. Okay?” "Yeah, okay.” "Dresden and his Protogen buddies thought they could choose who lives and who dies. That sound familiar? And don't tell me it's different this time, because everyone says that, every time. And it's not.
Daniel Abraham
He considered recording it. His suit would be able to make a simple visual file and stream the data out in real time. But no. This was his moment. His and Julia's. The rest of humanity could guess what it had been like if they cared.
Daniel Abraham
Too many dots,” Miller said. "Not enough lines.
Daniel Abraham
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