“Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“To lose everything is not the worst that can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“Can you love someone you don't trust?"
"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“Some errors you can only see once you’ve committed them.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from 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.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“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, quote from A Shadow in Summer
“I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow can't be worse than today was." "Possibility is a wide field, dear. Can't is a word for small imaginations.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from 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.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from 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.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from A Shadow in Summer
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“To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.”
― J.C. Reed, quote from Surrender Your Love
“Char is beautiful, smart, funny, and I love the way our bodies communicate with one another. It’s as if she was made for me.” ~ Riley”
― T.H. Snyder, quote from Touch Me
“My disbelief paralyzes me temporarily as I stare at the sight of my arm vanishing into an implausibly small gap between the fallen boulder and the canyon wall. Within moments, my nervous system’s pain response overcomes the initial shock. Good Christ, my hand. The flaring agony throws me into a panic, I grimace and growl a sharp “Fuck!” My mind commands my body, “Get your hand out of there!” I yank my arm three times in a naive attempt to pull it out.
But I’m stuck.”
― Aron Ralston, quote from Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“As I proceeded to my cave for the night, my stomach rumbled. Compared to the treasure of spiritual experience, worldly acquisition is like those peanuts, I thought to myself. People lie, cry, and die for a few of these peanuts. They fight and struggle for a handful. Wars are raged over them. But at any moment, a monkey, another’s greed, or even the inevitable march of time may plunder from us our cherished peanuts.”
― Radhanath Swami, quote from The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.”
― Anna Kavan, quote from Ice
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