James S.A. Corey Quotes

Prepare us for what? Holden asked. To poke gods with a sharp stick? No, Captain Holden. No sticks, Duarte said. When you fight gods, you storm heaven.

Recycled air that had passed through a million lungs. Water from the tap so clean it could be used for lab work, but it had been piss and shit and tears and blood and would be again. The circle of lif...

Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did.

Saber rattling we’ve done before, she said. We’ve survived it. It’s a known quantity. I have a binder with nine hundred pages of analysis and contingency plans for conflict with Mars, including fourte...

Same here, Cap'n, Amos said. I got a lot of past in my past.

Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take the most beautiful person in the solar system, zoom in on them at the right magnification and they wer...

She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.

She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face. Seriously. Now? she said. We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is '...

She’d grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy.

Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

So are you conscious? The alien robot—the skin the Miller construct was using—shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. Don’t know. Seems like I’m acing my Turing test, though. Elvi

So either panicking amateurs or something critical to defend, Holden said. A metal canister the size of a fist rolled through the gateway, clanking. Amos picked the grenade up casually and tossed it b...

So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money, Han said. After that, it was just bad luck.

So there was this unlicensed brothel down in sector 18. We went thinking we’d be hauling fifteen, twenty people in. More, maybe. Got there, and the place was stripped to the stone,

So you’re trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying? Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.

Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight. The

Someone would run a card game or set up a pachinko parlor or start a little protection racket. People would be bribed to do things or not do things. It was what happened when you put people together.

Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can’t go anywhere.

Strong believer in doing what needs to get done.

Structures are never monolithic.