New job? he asked. New job, Burton said. I know you and Erich grew up together. Is this going to be a problem for you? Nope, Timmy said, slipping the gun into his pocket. There hadn’t even been a paus...
Motherfucker, Amos said again, this time without the heat. Holden knew him well enough to know that angry Amos was not nearly as dangerous as cold Amos. I was thinking I’d have a tough time spacing a...
Miller had thought hope was dead. He’d thought all his chances had been played, and then, like a bitch, it all hauled itself up out of the grave. Get
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.
Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.
Kings were always the last to feel the famine.
Keel-mounted rail gun, Alex said with a grin. —that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
Just do not pull that fucking trigger. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't. You will be personally responsible for the deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fu...
I’m not asking you to sleep with him. Good, because I don’t use sex as a weapon, Bobbie said. I use weapons as weapons.
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.
It’s what’s missing in all of this, Holden said. It’s what let things get this bad. We don’t see each other as people. Even the feeds are always about weird things. Aberrations. All the times that a B...
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...
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 a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t predict what’s going to fail. Or how. It’s computationa...
It was intentional and inhuman. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there.
It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.
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 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 seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old.
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...