Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.
One of your mothers did the cooking? How traditional,Naomi said with a smirk.
Oh, Anna said. She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
Nothing that’ll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker.
Nothing like the stupid shit people do for a captain when they're really invested in not seeing how fucked up he is.
No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.
No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. So
Naomi shrugged with her hands, then started pulling her hair behind her head and tying it up with a red elastic band.
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.
Maybe it was a cumulative process, like smoking cigarettes. One didn’t do much. Five didn’t do much more. Every emotion he’d shut down, every human contact he’d spurned, every love and friendship and...
Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.
Like a religious fanatic, the man really believed that everything he’d done was justified by his goal in doing it.
It’s the reward of old age, Avasarala said. You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.
It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa. Fred
It wasn’t just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets alm...
It was strange how a person could be so vitally important in your life, and yet you had nothing to say to them when they weren’t sharing the same air.
It was contrast that gave things shape. Brightness made darkness. Fullness made emptiness. Loneliness defined the borders of whatever not-loneliness was called. They were comparative.
Intellectually, he knew he wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself or his happiness to save everyone else. But that didn’t stop the tiny voice at the back of his head that said, Fuck everyone else, I w...
Insurgencies are historically nearly impossible to eradicate, for a few very simple reasons. The insurgents don’t wear uniforms. They look just like the innocent populace. And, they’re the friends and...
If the woman still had a soul, it had been pressed thin enough to see through.