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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eb38e9e | You can't take the Razorback," he said to the tiny red triangles. "We are gone and gone and gone." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c9f1d76 | Alex took a high stool and ordered a whiskey. "Little early in the day for celebration," the barkeep said as he poured. "What's the occasion?" "It turns out," Alex said, exaggerating his Mariner Valley drawl just a little for the effect, "that sometimes I'm an asshole." "Hard truth." "It is." "You expect drinking alone to improve that?" "Nope. Just observing the traditions of alienated masculine pain." "Fair enough," the barkeep said. "Want.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 1ddc24f | First mutiny?" Naomi said. "Yeah. It's not really something I do." "It gets easier." | prison-escape traitor | James S.A. Corey | |
| 702ca4f | Liev Andropoulous!" the boy shouted. "You are under arrest for racketeering, slavery, and murder! You are not required to participate in questioning without the presence of an attorney or union representative!" Tiny flecks of spittle dotted the inside of the face shield. The boy's wide eyes were almost jittering with fear. Liev sighed. "Ask me," he said slowly, enunciating very clearly, "if I understand." "What?" the boy shouted. "You've to.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| dddb2b3 | My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety. | hallucinations miller protomolecule | James S.A. Corey | |
| a7fe8e7 | A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial. | burial death fear sky space-exploration terror | James S.A. Corey | |
| 1b76073 | She'd grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8509bf3 | The name ROCINANTE was on the wall in letters as broad as his hand, and someone had added a stencil of a spray of yellow narcissus. It looked desperately out of place and very appropriate at the same time. When he thought about it that way, it seemed to fit most things about the ship. Her crew, for instance. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 610f90e | We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Charanpal." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 31beee4 | I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle." The bridge went quiet." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 49f6dfe | Mom," Holden said. "Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We're not a different species." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| dae085f | But after a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying. I still travel. I still talk to people. Sometimes we talk about Jesus Christ. Sometimes we talk about cooking. If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 7502400 | We've survived it. It's a known quantity. I have a binder with nine hundred pages of analysis and contingency plans for conflict with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what we do if they develop an unexpected new technology. The binder for what we do if something comes up from Venus? It's three pages long, and it begins Step One: Find God." Errinwright" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5e205aa | Because he's Amos. He's like a pit bull. You know he could tear your throat out, but he's loyal to a fault and you just want to hug him." She" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 6298b65 | the Church of Humanity Ascendant, a religion that eschewed supernaturalism in all forms, and whose theology boiled down to Humans can be better than they are, so let's do that. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| fc9c60b | Miller caught the red-and-green border that meant either a priority message or an early Christmas card. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 24da780 | Sure, boss," Havelock said. "Cool as November, smooth as China silk." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 240dcc6 | Now you're asking me to explain microwaves to a monkey. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| a9b201a | The Ring didn't put us on alert," he said. "It's the Martians. Even with that thing out there, we're still thinking about shooting each other. That's pretty fucked up. Sorry. Messed up." "It seems like we should be able to see past our human differences when we're confronted with something like this, doesn't it?" Chris" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| f81e741 | Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas and petty power struggles and opinions on how he should be doing his job better. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 59fbef6 | Partners," she said, and fired two rounds into his head." | headshot partners trust | James S.A. Corey | |
| a6a35f8 | Tilly screamed. Anna's shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? She recognized her fixation on this irritation as her own way of avoiding the horror in front of her, but only in a distant and dreamy sort of way. | horror problem-solving scream screaming | James S.A. Corey | |
| 002943d | And somehow, that changed everything about sex. The movements might all be the same, but the desire to communicate affection rather than demonstrate prowess changed what everything meant. | movement prowess sex | James S.A. Corey | |
| 62b0a60 | They don't know what it's about, or...you know, at least they don't know what's going to happen. This isn't even built like a torture chamber. It's all being watched, right? Water and air sensors. It's a Petri dish. They don't know what that s*** that killed Julie does, and this is how they're finding out." Holden frowned. "Don't they have laboratories? Places where you could maybe put that crap on some animals or something? Because as ex.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| d5e2db9 | There are two sides in this, but they aren't inner planets and outer ones. Belters and everyone else. It's not like that. It's the people who want more violence and the ones who want less. And no matter what other variable you sample out of, you'll find some of both. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ec60b56 | Brother. If I call you sister, you call me brother, see, because - | James S.A. Corey | ||
| b9bad63 | Holden considered ordering her to button up her helmet, then shrugged. She was old enough to decide for herself the relative risks and rewards of eating during a battle. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 771e60d | I'm all for forgiveness and bygones being bygones, but it's easier to stomach that after the assholes are all dead. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 282daed | Been brooding the whole time?" she asked. "Some of it, yeah." "Did it help?" "Nope." "Right. Spring into action, then?" He nodded at the amber door alarm. "Not yet." She glanced down. The override light flickered in her eyes like a candle flame. "Huh. All right. Brush teeth, pee, and spring into action?" "That'll work," he agreed, and hauled himself up out of the bed." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 529a1cb | You train dogs by rewarding them. Punishment doesn't actually work. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 81be20d | Han had been in a thousand places like it, all across the galaxy. Some had been as large as star systems, others as small as a back room in a cantina. They were the niches of the universe ... They were violent places, and they were joyful, and they didn't last. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 74ca51d | Ouch. Fuck." "What's that, Chief?" Alex asked. "Nothing. Just went a hundred kph when twenty would have done," | James S.A. Corey | ||
| eb58376 | The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 79eb195 | The damage to her body, the wear and the weariness, were all products of conscious, determined choices made by a girl she hadn't been in decades. She carried the weight of those decisions like a sack of bones. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| d6cd6b9 | I'm as surprised as you are," Avasarala said. "Though I feel like I shouldn't be. I actually read history. It's like reading prophecy, you know." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ecb24f3 | Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that periodically changed the rules of physics and had killed a bunch of them, but now they'd decided to start shooting each other too. Yes, very bad. | bad circumstances death orbit physics | James S.A. Corey | |
| 944ff5f | Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn't come without the other, and Holden had to take comfort in that. The sense that however terrible humanity's failings were, there was still a little more in them worth admiring. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 37144e4 | Tell me everything it explains," he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene." | moist obscene sensual speaking | James S.A. Corey | |
| a921562 | The best governments in history have been kings and emperors," Duarte said. "The worst ones too. A philosopher-king can manage great things in his lifetime. And his grandchildren can squander it." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 192e23a | It's not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it's all an enemy plot, at least there's someone calling the shots. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c17d6b4 | The entire idea of it was arrogant and defiant and grandiose. Anna loved it. As she walked across a wide empty plain of steel that should have been covered in topsoil and crops, she thought that this audaciousness was exactly what humanity had lost somewhere in the last couple of centuries. When ancient maritime explorers had climbed into their creaking wooden ships and tried to find ways to cross the great oceans of Earth, had their voyag.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| bfca4ae | The ones that don't kill you don't count. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| fd047f6 | It'd be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 141deae | Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument. | James S.A. Corey |