A Shadow in Summer Quotes

“Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“To lose everything is not the worst that can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“Can you love someone you don't trust?"

"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“Some errors you can only see once you’ve committed them.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“And what’s the difference between us, that you’ll brush his sins aside and not my own?”
Maati smiled. “You aren’t him,” he said.
“And you love him.”
Maati took a pose of affirmation.
“And love is more important than justice,” Seedless said.
“Sometimes. Yes.”
Seedless smiled and nodded.
“What a terrible thought,” he said. “That love and injustice should be married.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“I've never told Liat. About who I am. Do you think ... Maati, can you love someone and not trust them?"

"We're born to odd lives, Otah-kvo," Maati said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow can't be worse than today was." "Possibility is a wide field, dear. Can't is a word for small imaginations.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“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.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in the soft quarter. I mean to take it from him.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer