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  1. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

    justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible.
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  2. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

    What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed.
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  3. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

    You only have to enforce boundaries where they're being imposed,
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  4. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

    The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would require not only an understanding of the draconic mind lost to humanity {if indeed it were ever available}, but also a comprehension of the particular form of madness which took him in the violent days that ended his reign. Certain facts are known: that Morade's clutch-mates contested his selection to the throne, that the battle between them raged for three human generations, that their end marked the opening of the ages of humanity. But these are generalities. Vagaries
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  5. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

    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 being unconsidered.
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  6. Daniel Abraham _ The King's Blood

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