If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?
If I had. If I had done those things, that would have been okay with you? Oh, fuck no. I’d have broken your neck and thrown you out the airlock, Amos said, clapping him on the shoulder. Ah, Prax said,...
I wouldn’t want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties.
I thought if you told people facts, they’d draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. Abou...
I see, Avasarala said. And what’s your plan? Holden barked out a laugh with no humor in it. Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma.
Holy shit, Holden said. Did you just magic that door open?
Holden rose, nodded to Fred, and left. Naomi walked at his side. Wow, that was close, she said under her breath. Once they’d left the office, Holden said, I think Fred was half a second from ordering...
Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as...
History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from. After
He’d been driven by his fear to become someone else. Someone who handled fear by turning it into violence.
Her mind wandered a little bit during the slow moments. Human violence as a kind of fractal—self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swel...
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...
He hadn’t done anything wrong, but the sense of being threatened and the experience of guilt were so closely related that it was hard to feel one without the other. When
Having a new high consul would be difficult under any circumstances, but it would be less difficult if there were a story with it.
Han had been in a thousand places like it, all across the galaxy. Some had been as large as star systems, others as small as a back room in a cantina. They were the niches of the universe … They were...
Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don’t ask questions.
Figure two-, three-hundred-kilometer-an-hour winds, lightning, torrential rains. You’re far enough inland to avoid the three-kilometer-high tsunami. Basic wrath of God package, minus drowning,
Ferns can be very aggressive, Prax said.
Excuse me, ma’am. Did you just instruct me to spy on Admiral Nguyen? No, I just asked for a comprehensive audit of all network traffic, and I don’t give a fuck about any results besides Nguyen’s offic...
Everywhere, all through the city, space was at a premium. Extended families lived in decaying apartments designed for half as many. Men and women who couldn’t escape the cramped space spent their days...