"“I’m not a traitor,” Bobbie said to her reflection in the mirror. Mirror Bobbie looked unconvinced."

Daniel Abraham Literature See all quotes by Daniel Abraham →

React to this quote

More by Daniel Abraham

“I’ve been through a lot of hearings about one damn thing and another. Most of the time they’re exercises in ass covering. If the unvarnished truth ever came out at one, it would be because someone screwed up.”

“The engineers groaned and shook their heads. Legal arguments were another phrase for bullshit to them.”

“Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.”

“She couldn’t beat sense into a stone. Not even when it seemed fun to try.”

““Trashy people puke,” Tilly said. “Ladies are unwell.”

“Patriotism was weird shit.”

Resonant Thoughts

"he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live."

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Literature1875–1956

#mind

"They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything el…"

— Shannon Hale

Literature1974

#love

"Scientists are just as vulnerable to wishful thinking, just as likely to be tempted by base motives, just as venal and gullible and forgetful as the rest of humankind. Scientists don't consider themse…"

— Daniel Dennett

Philosophy1942–2024

#mind

"t is absolutely wrong to infer any ideal sense of sacrifice in the Jews from the fact that they stand together in struggle, or, better expressed, in the plundering of their fellow men."

— Adolf Hitler

Politics1889–1945

#mind