19 Quotes & Sayings By Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham is the co-creator of the critically acclaimed series The Expanse, winner of both 2015 Hugo award and 2015 Kitschy Award for Best Series. He is also the author of the novel The Black God's War, winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2014. His short fiction has appeared in multiple publications, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. In 2012 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. Daniel Abraham
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We did an evil thing, father."" What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible. Daniel Abraham
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Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed. Daniel Abraham
She shone like the horizon when it is almost too...
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She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon. Daniel Abraham
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As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here. Daniel Abraham
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It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts. Daniel Abraham
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Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know. Daniel Abraham
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There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. Daniel Abraham
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To lose everything is not the worst can happen."" It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing, " Otah said." Is exactly this, " Maj agreed, then a moment later. "Starting again, and doing better. Daniel Abraham
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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. Daniel Abraham
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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. Daniel Abraham
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I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, ” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this, Daniel Abraham
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I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance. Daniel Abraham
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Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly. Daniel Abraham
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It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn’t care anymore. Daniel Abraham
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 “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?” Erin’s smile drooped a little, tired with the effort. “ You’re making an assumption, ” she said. “Just hang in there. It’ll get easier.” “ But not better, ” Alexander said. “ But not better. Daniel Abraham
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Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was. Daniel Abraham
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Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we’d slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don’t. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever. Daniel Abraham