James S.A. Corey Quotes

You can’t take the Razorback, he said to the tiny red triangles. We are gone and gone and gone.

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 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 know what I hate about you? My hat? That too, Holden said. But mostly it’s that I hate everything you say, but you’re not always wrong.

You ready? Amos asked. Does it matter? Not a lot. Let’s

You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar’s not low. The

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...

Person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I’m

Alex said. This is Medina Station under occupation by a bunch of splinter Martian military expats. It’s not Baltimore. Amos’ smile was as placid as always. Everywhere’s Baltimore.

All beautiful things should have just a little sorrow about them. Made them seem real.

All empty. She plucked a magnetized pipe wrench of suitable size for skull cracking out of an EVA kit,

Because we’re human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny.

Brother. If I call you sister, you call me brother, see, because –

But Holden suspected there was a lot more to Prax than that. There was a relentless forward motion to the man. The universe might knock him down over and over again, but unless he was dead, he’d just...

But after a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there’s really no difference between trying and not trying. I still travel. I still talk to people. Sometimes we talk about Jesus Ch...

But all the stories about the devil making a deal and then cheating missed the point. The real horror was that once the bargain was struck, the devil didn’t cheat. He gave you exactly and explicitly a...

But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a rebel than he’d ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defe...

But listening to people bitch? Yeah, that’s sorta your job. It’s why you make the big money. We make the same money. Then I guess you’re doing it for the fame and glory. I hate you, Holden said.

But pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.

But, Bobbie? Really, really don’t die out there. No one lives forever, sir, Bobbie said, but as long as it doesn’t compromise the mission, I’ll try to live through it. Thanks.