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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 t...

Daniel Abraham

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 t...

Tags: epistemology, skepticism

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,...

Daniel Abraham

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,...

Tags: death, renewal, seasons

About Author
Daniel Abraham may refer to:

Daniel Abraham (author) (born 1969), science fiction and fantasy author, who also writes as part of the joint-pseudonym James S.A. Corey
Daniel Abraham (rugby league) (born 1981), Australian rugby league footballer
Daniel Abraham (conductor) (born 1968), director of the Bach Sinfonia and director of choral activities at American University in Washington, D.C.
S. Daniel Abraham (born 1924), American businessman
Daniel Abraham (cyclist) (born 1985), Dutch-Eritrean cyclist
Daniel Abraham (bishop), Indian Bishop of Tirunelveli from 1975 to 1984

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 bei...

Daniel Abraham

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 bei...

If you think you are too small to make a change, try to sleep in a room with one mosquito!

Daniel Abraham

If you think you are too small to make a change, try to sleep in a room with one mosquito!

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

Daniel Abraham

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

How did you find out? I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.

Daniel Abraham

How did you find out? I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.

Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.

Daniel Abraham

Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.

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

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.

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

Daniel Abraham

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

I think the world is often like that. Like what? Comic, but only at the right distance.

Daniel Abraham

I think the world is often like that. Like what? Comic, but only at the right distance.

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

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.

Tags: fate, love

When you start talking about killed friends and lost babies, justice and revenge are two names for the same dog.

Daniel Abraham

When you start talking about killed friends and lost babies, justice and revenge are two names for the same dog.

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 d...

Daniel Abraham

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 d...

Tags: morality, war

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

Daniel Abraham

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgment.

Daniel Abraham

Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgment.

That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you...

Daniel Abraham

That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you...

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

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.

Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.

Daniel Abraham

Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.

Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.

Daniel Abraham

Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.

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

Daniel Abraham

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