An Autumn War Quotes

“Has it ever struck you people how arrogant you are?" it asked, huge hands taking an attitude of query that bordered on accusation. "You're talking of slaughtering a nation. Thousands of innocent people destroyed, lands made barren, mountains leveled and the sea pulled up over them like a blanket. And you're feeling sorry for yourself that you had to wring a bird's neck as a boy? How can anyone have feelings that delicate and that numbed both at the same time?”
― Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War

“In a better world, he thought, I'd have followed that man to hell.”
― Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War

“Danat was asking if we had any other books," Maati said.
"You have all of them," the boy said, awe I'm his voice.
Maati chuckled, and then felt the mirth and simple pleasure fade.
"Yes," he said. "Yes, we have all of them.”
― Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War

“Three men came out of the desert. Twenty had gone in.”
― Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War

“Otah rode slowly, the clack of his mount’s hooves on pavement giving order to the idiot, tuneless wind chimes.”
― Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War