It was intentional and inhuman. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there.
It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.
It’s not I don’t trust, it’s that I don’t trust blind. People are people. Fucked up like we all are, it amazes me when we can even make a sandwich.
It’s not healthy having God sleeping right there where we can all watch him dream. It scares the shit out of us. It scares the shit out of me.
It’s the basic obstacle of artificial ecosystems. In a normal evolutionary environment, there’s enough diversity to cushion the system when something catastrophic happens. That’s nature. Catastrophic...
I’m as surprised as you are, Avasarala said. Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, did that ship just fire a spread of torpedoes at us?
Julie had become the part of him that was capable of human feeling.
Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That wasn’t just the Belt. That was all of history. The people who’d just been going about their lives were the ones who could speak to the actual cost o...
Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.
Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy.
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...
Miller closed his terminal, frowning. Philosophical. But if it’s the price of doing business, what’re we here for? Because I thought you… you people had this shit under control. Ever since we stopped...
Naomi coughed. It was wet, painful sound, but the medical bay didn't seem concerned. The machine had a shitty bedside manner.
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary thing...
No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.
No, there doesn’t. Every time someone starts talking about final anythings in politics, that means the atrocities are warming up. Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and...
Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy. Holden’s
Poker is a game, too, Bobbie said. But sometimes the stakes get so high that one player decides it's easier to kill the other guy and walk away with the money.
Posthuman. It was a word that came up in the media every five or six years, and it meant different things every time. Neural regrowth hormone? Posthuman. Sex robots with inbuilt pseudo intelligence? P...
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