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1972229
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He kind of wished he had a hat.
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James S.A. Corey |
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bb81810
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Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die."
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James S.A. Corey |
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205a7c1
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Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy.
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James S.A. Corey |
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7a3f5ec
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No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end.
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James S.A. Corey |
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c54b081
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Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is.
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James S.A. Corey |
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ca0d258
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He'd seen unequivocally that the chaos he'd dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would ever be. No compromise he could make would be enough. His death-self was unfolding in him, and the dark blooming took no effort. It was a relief, a relaxation, a long, slow exhale after decades of holding it in. He was in ruins, but it was okay, because he was dying.
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James S.A. Corey |
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087b8e3
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Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull's-eye smaller than a mosquito's asshole.
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James S.A. Corey |
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5ea3f4d
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She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face. "Seriously. Now?" she said. "We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is 'Ooh, boobies!"
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James S.A. Corey |
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68afb89
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Amazing how much we've managed to do, considering how we're doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene.
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James S.A. Corey |
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e382eff
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She sat at the dining table, a steaming mug of tea in front of her, a distant look in her eyes. Holden couldn't tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar.
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James S.A. Corey |
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7bdcbca
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Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.
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James S.A. Corey |
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095784f
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People used to think gold was worth fightin' over, and that shit gets made by every supernova, which means pretty much every planet around a G2 star will have some. Stars burn through lithium as fast as they make it. All the available ore got made at the big bang, and we're not doin' another one of those. Now that's scarcity, friend.
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James S.A. Corey |
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3dde329
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Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter _Rocinante_.' 'What does that name even mean?'... 'It means we need to go find some windmills
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James S.A. Corey |
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88a63d9
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Yes, you're in charge. That makes me XO, and it's the XO's job to tell the captain when he's being an idiot. You're being an idiot, sir.
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James S.A. Corey |
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a4e475a
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We're not people," he said. "We're the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine." "Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are." "And look where it got us,"..
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James S.A. Corey |
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71251dc
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Sure, humans had invaded an extra-dimensional space with wormholes to points scattered across the galaxy, but they'd remembered to bring ferns.
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James S.A. Corey |
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9fc6e57
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Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way...
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James S.A. Corey |
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3382a1e
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How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull.
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James S.A. Corey |
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421ebe5
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Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that's weird. That or Oh shit.
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James S.A. Corey |
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bdd600b
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Hey," she said. "Hey." "So I have a thing." "Is it a thing I can fix?" Holden asked. "Point me at the thing."
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James S.A. Corey |
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3db97f8
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My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough." At"
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James S.A. Corey |
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bf37b5e
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If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history.
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James S.A. Corey |
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ac5d9aa
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Change should be watched, moderated, and questioned. But that conservative view shouldn't rein in progress or put a damper on hope.
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James S.A. Corey |
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3676104
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It'd be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a bucket of fucked." -Chrisjen Avasarala"
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James S.A. Corey |
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62195ac
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That Holden is up to something? Have you met that guy? He's never done anything secretly in his life.
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James S.A. Corey |
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f411fde
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The Epstein Drive hadn't given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.
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James S.A. Corey |
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8a641a3
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Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.
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explosion
mass-murder
terrorists
planet
plague
space-exploration
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James S.A. Corey |
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89e6881
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Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp
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power
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James S.A. Corey |
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c8e90eb
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The sex," he said. "I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us." "Well," she said, "orgasm does release a lot of oxytocin, so I'm probably more fond of you than before."
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sex
oxytocin
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James S.A. Corey |
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734fa53
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That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.
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James S.A. Corey |
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6506ed8
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Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she'd taken the job to escape prosecution for killing an ex-husband. Holden liked her.
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James S.A. Corey |
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6d7928a
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Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear. He felt he now had the counterargument.
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James S.A. Corey |
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54d3943
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We're like children," Anna said, pushing herself to her feet and lecturing down at him. "Who burn their hands on a hot stove and then think the solution is to blow up all the stoves."
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James S.A. Corey |
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b82d4e0
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There was justice to be had. He just couldn't afford it.
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James S.A. Corey |
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c456e1e
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Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma.
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James S.A. Corey |
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86dfbcd
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There was a relentless forward motion to the man. The universe might knock him down over and over again, but unless he was dead, he'd just keep getting up and shuffling ahead toward his goal. Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks. Plodding along until he got to where he needed to be.
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James S.A. Corey |
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a732a69
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Oh good," Amos replied. "Somebody got killed there. That's how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now."
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James S.A. Corey |
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7f61359
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Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter
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James S.A. Corey |
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e94ec2a
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Because we're human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny.
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James S.A. Corey |
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d21ba1f
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You know," Naomi said, "if you're looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you're on wrong side."
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murder
sides
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James S.A. Corey |
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01c59c1
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Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can't go anywhere.
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James S.A. Corey |
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389df44
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Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.
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irony
truth
practicality
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James S.A. Corey |
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f138e9e
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You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.
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metaphor
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James S.A. Corey |
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b7f7950
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Your empire's hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins and what parts of it don't count.
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James S.A. Corey |