42 Quotes by Daniel Abraham

Has it ever struck you people how arrogant you are?” it asked, huge hands taking an attitude of query that bordered on accusation. “You’re talking of slaughtering a nation. Thousands of innocent people destroyed, lands made barren, mountains leveled and the sea pulled up over them like a blanket. And you’re feeling sorry for yourself that you had to wring a bird’s neck as a boy? How can anyone have feelings that delicate and that numbed both at the same time?

Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.

She stepped toward him, her hand on his shoulder. He took her fingers in his, kissing her gently without even being aware that he was doing so. Affection was a habit between them, more genuine for being unconsidered.

She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.

Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.

A monstrous talent that could do anything because no one had managed to convince it of what was impossible.

Love is noble,” the magistra said. “And so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren’t so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.

I’ve loved a lot of people, and the word hasn’t meant the same thing twice.

Never assume you can survive the future because you’ve survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they’ve all been wrong eventually.