His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.
Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one now. Whatever happened, she could be certain that things wouldn’t stay the way they were n...
Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.
Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,
Change should be watched, moderated, and questioned. But that conservative view shouldn’t rein in progress or put a damper on hope.
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.
As long as you always see the next step, you can walk the whole way. She
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...
The idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion.
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.
Person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I’m
[T]hat question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It’s meaningless.
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 train dogs by rewarding them. Punishment doesn’t actually work.
Yeah, okay. That’s just self-serving enough I believe it, he said. Let’s get settled in.
Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That’s what war is.
What have we got? Ashford said. Short form.It's fucking weird, sir, Chan said.
What about you? Scarlet asked. You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?Not the fear, Han said. I just like being a little smarter than the next guy.That’s all it is?That, and I really hate payi...
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...