James S.A. Corey Quotes

Do we have a plan? A couple, Jim said. Either of them good? Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible. The

You crazy, Jianguo said. No crew in there. They’ll jump you. Yep. Then why? Because, Amos said, standing up and throwing the towel over his shoulder, I hate waiting. As

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.

Petyr had been talking about mathematics again, boring everyone, when her mother looked up from her plate with a smile and announced that Julie had written a letter to say she’d quit the family. Clari...

Ja minä nousivat kuolleista ja halventaa kohtalo pakottaa minut ja siskoni…

Stars are better off without us, he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered...

No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role.

The man he’d once been wasn’t a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had.

Naomi made an exasperated sound. It was funny, he thought, how you could make someone’s voice out from the smallest sounds. A cough or a sigh. Or the little gasp right before she died.

Fred launched himself at Dawes, pushing out with numbed legs, and Dawes scuttled back. Fred landed on the deck hard. The world grayed out for a second, and he tasted blood. He struggled forward, tryin...

I’ve watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn’t quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice.

Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.

Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.

What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?

And the Mark Watney, out of Mars.

I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it’s not obvious what that is. I agree with you, Holden said. Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.

Strength by itself is just bullying, capitulation by itself is an invitation to get fucked; only mixed strategies survive. Everything is personal, but they know that too. They can smell pandering like...

We’ve all changed, he said. By coming here. By going through the trials that we’re all going through, we’ve all been changed. When we go back, none of us will be the people we were before. The tragedy...