But it is only a machine. It doesn’t think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change.
Anyway, that’s not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don’t understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he’ll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last per...
And how are you doing? He didn't ask because he needed an answer. He asked because he needed her to know the answer mattered to him.
Also, Nathan, if you’re listening, and I assume you are, I’m the best and only friend you’ve got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I’ll have you turning tricks out of a pre...
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.
His ability to appear to be listening lent him an air of gravity without the inconvenience of an opinion of his own.
You’ve been spending a lot of time in Belter bars, Colonel. Someone might think you were looking for something. Dawes? Fred? I’ve been through better interrogation training than you’ll ever see. You w...
You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse. And
You ready? Amos asked. Does it matter? Not a lot. Let’s
You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks.
You ever wondered why I leave as soon as anyone else shows up? I’m special? Yeah, I wouldn’t go that far.
You couldn’t have come this far through so many dangers if there weren’t a reason for you to be here. The same beautiful bullshit that everyone told themselves. That they were special. That they matte...
You ask yourself what happens, Miller said. Ask yourself what Naomi’d do. Holden barked out a laugh. Is that how you make your decisions? Miller let his eyes close. Juliette Mao was there, sitting on...
What did you do? Fred asked. There was a button, Holden said. I pushed it. Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn’t it?
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 t...
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...
We’re not people, he said. We’re the stories that people tell each other about us.
Things change, Red, Amos said, you let us know. Because I’ll still be happy to kill the shit out of her.
They had no idea what it does, but they slapped their label on it like they’d made it. They found an alien weapon, and all they could think to do was brand it. There’s
There were two sides fighting—that was true enough—but they weren’t the inner planets versus the Belters. They were the people who thought it was a good idea to kill people who looked or acted differe...