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Daniel Abraham es escritor de ficción estadounidense.

✵ 14. noviembre 1969
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“The second I saw those bastards coming down the street, I knew it was over for me. I’m dead. It’s just a matter of time is all.”

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“That’s always true,” Lydia said, her mind taken with other matters. “For everyone.”
The Churn (2014)

“The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 50 (p. 522)

“All the numberless different solutions that evolution had come up with under all the different stars, and all responding—more or less—to the same pressures. Eyes on every world. Mouths near the sense organs, because things with feeding coordination did better than things without.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 34 (p. 359)

““Thanks for everything,” she said to the universe, as if it had been at the host of a particularly good party that was just winding down.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 32 (p. 339)

“I’m going to go obsessively run diagnostics on systems I know are solid so I can feel like I have control of something.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 30 (p. 319)

“Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’ gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered a lot more close-enough-is-close-enough than actual design.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 29 (p. 309)

“I’m not sure if dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 25 (p. 264)

“Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 21 (p. 215)

“What you’re really doing is trying to win back what you’ve lost by going all in. It’s shitty poker, and even worse as a battle strategy.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 17 (pp. 178-179)

“But all the stories about the devil making a deal and then cheating missed the point. The real horror was that once the bargain was struck, the devil didn’t cheat. He gave you exactly and explicitly all that had been promised. And the price was your soul.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 13 (p. 136)

“I don’t know what the win look like.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 11 (p. 120)

“Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 8 (p. 87)

“Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 8 (p. 84)

“In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 3 (p. 41)

“It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 3 (p. 41)

“Pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 2 (p. 31)

“The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

“The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so they’re vulnerable. We all define ourselves by the people around us, because that’s the kind of monkey we are. We can’t transcend it. So when they watch you, they hand you the power to change what they are too.”

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The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Prologue (p. 5)

“It’s always been like this. Every generation finds its own way to show that it isn’t like the one before. Too much risk, too much sex, terrible music, not enough respect for the old ways. This is no different.”

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Rates of Change (with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey), in Meeting Infinity (2015), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and published by Solaris ISBN 978-1-84997-922-1, e-book edition

“God might not care about financial standing, but He was the only one.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 39 (p. 398)

“Patriotism was weird shit.”

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Fuente: The Expanse, Persepolis Rising (2017), Chapter 25 (p. 267)

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