{"author":"Daniel Abraham","author_id":"Daniel+Abraham","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":14996,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["doubt","epistemology","skepticism"],"id":76020,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["evil","morality","war"],"id":115627,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["battle","war","warfare"],"id":161243,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["inspirational-attitude"],"id":178566,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["destiny","fate","love"],"id":182495,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["court","justice","morality","politics"],"id":205729,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["mortality"],"id":219727,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"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.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["peace"],"id":224948,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"},{"text":"She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["beauty"],"id":229591,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}