“Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“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.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from 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”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“You only have to enforce boundaries where they’re being imposed,”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“It was the fate of all reforms that they turned against the reformers.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from 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.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“Over the proof that someone can be both certain and wrong. In my mind, I began to reserve judgment even on the revelations of the goddess. I cultivated the word probably. Was the temple swept? Yes, probably. But perhaps not. The goddess was eternal and just and immune to all lies, probably. We were her beloved and chosen, probably. But perhaps we weren’t. I became very aware of the division between truth and certainty. I began to doubt. And once I was on that path, there was no hiding it.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“I’m not drunk,” Cithrin said. “You aren’t,” Yardem agreed. “Then why can’t I have another glass?” “Because that’s how you stay not drunk.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
“justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible.”
― Daniel Abraham, quote from The King's Blood
Daniel Abraham
Born place: in The United States
Born date November 14, 1969
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“High on a stag the Goddess held her seat,
And there were little hounds about her feet;
Below her feet there was a sickle moon,
Waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon.
Her statue bore a mantle of bright green,
Her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen;
Her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode
Down to where Pluto has his dark abode.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, quote from The Canterbury Tales
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, quote from Ulysses
“You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner
“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from A Farewell to Arms
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