Yeah, Alex said in his drawling voice. I mean, Naomi only got beat half to death. She can cut this Clarissa slack, it’s no big deal. But the captain’s girlfriend got hurt. He’s the real victim here.
Yeah, okay. That’s just self-serving enough I believe it, he said. Let’s get settled in.
Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.I admire your psychotic optimism.
Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I’d wanted him dead, don’t you think he’d be dead? It’s not like I quit hitting him because I was tired.
Motherfucker, Amos said again, this time without the heat. Holden knew him well enough to know that angry Amos was not nearly as dangerous as cold Amos. I was thinking I’d have a tough time spacing a...
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.
I’m not asking you to sleep with him. Good, because I don’t use sex as a weapon, Bobbie said. I use weapons as weapons.
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.
His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
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...
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...
But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.
What are you thinking, Amos? Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we’re done with the first part. Naomi
Kings were always the last to feel the famine.
Knowing that all you can give isn’t enough is its own burden.
What happened? she asked.The landing pad blew up.Oh, she said. And then, do they do that?No. No, they really don't.
He was kind of a pain in the ass, wasn’t he? Holden said. That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depr...
Mark Watney, out of Mars.
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...
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