Daniel Abraham

"There was a time, Prax knew, that the violence would have bothered him. Not the blood or bodies. He’d spent more than enough time doing dissections and even autonomous-limb vivisection to be able to w…"

"If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too."

"The imperial view, a history professor at the Naval Academy once said, is the long view. Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They build massive constructs of …"

"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."

"Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous."

"When Bobbie tried to imagine being so wealthy you could own a spaceship just to compete in races, she failed. That the same girl had run away to be an OPA rebel probably said a lot about the relations…"

"She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took."

"This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies."