All monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and clo...
You’ve worked with George R. R. Martin a lot in the past. What kind of advice did he have for this project? Yes, I’ve done a number of projects with him in one incarnation or another. In this case, he...
You’re cranky because you’re tired, Amos said. You got that I-have-to-save-everyone hangup, so I make it that you haven’t slept in about two days. But listening to people bitch? Yeah, that’s sorta you...
You going to take the job? Miller said. I haven’t decided, Holden said. Which, since you are running a simulation of my brain, you already know. So you asking is really you telling me to take it. Stop...
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 dropped a hammer under thrust, and it fell to the deck. Your government slaughtered six families of ethnic Chinese prospectors, someone pinned you to the living rock of Ceres with a three-foot tit...
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 can’t take the Razorback, he said to the tiny red triangles. We are gone and gone and gone.
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...
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.
What? You’re very beautiful, Holden said. I hope I tell you that often enough. You do. Then I hope I don’t tell you so often it gets annoying. You don’t, she
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?
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
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’re outgunned and outplanned, and I don’t see how we win.
We’re not people, he said. We’re the stories that people tell each other about us.
We’re not anarchists, she said. We have goals. We want to end the Empire.And replace it with what?You know what, Scarlet said. Her crossed arms matched his own. Are you trying to make fun of me?It was...
We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later it's like nothing ever happened
We may have to get clever before the next one shows up, but no matter what happens, we’ll keep firing until that thing is a cloud of complex molecules and regret.
We don’t want to get in a gunfight, Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. Yeah, Amos said. But if we’re in one anyway, it’ll be nice to have guns.