James S.A. Corey Quotes

I hear Montana is nice. Population density is good. Still more cows than people.

I love the period of rotation. Thirty hours. You can get in a full day’s work, stay up getting drunk at the saloon, and still get a full night’s sleep. I don’t know why we didn’t think of this back ho...

I love you very much, Avasarala said. Knowing you has let me bear the unbearable. Arjun

I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don’t understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That’s probably safe to play with, right?

I think we need to leave now, Holden said, fear making the words come fast. Like now now. Not later now.

I wouldn’t want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too. He

If people call me names, they do. I’m just trying to make it a little harder for people to feel comfortable killing each other.

If the medical bay could have raised its eyebrows and made judgmental little tsk-tsk sounds, it would have. Instead,

If the woman still had a soul, it had been pressed thin enough to see through.

In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. T...

In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.

In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.

In his experience, everyone dealt with pushing too hard differently. Some got angry and irritable, some got sad. At a guess, it was all loss of inhibition. Wear down the façade with too much work or f...

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...

It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn’t intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a...

It struck him, not for the first time, that confrontations were like a dance. Certain moves required certain responses, and most of it happened in the lower parts of the brain that language might not...

It takes something to stand out a little, and you can’t swing a dead cat on Ganymede without hitting five botany PhDs.

It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to do the right thing. He didn’t know any other way to play it. Or

It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.