James S.A. Corey Quotes

It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and...

What I want is Ceres Station or Earth or Mars. You know what they have in New York? All-night diners with greasy food and crap coffee. I want to live on a world with all-night diners. And racetracks....

Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They build massive constructs of stone and steel so that their descendants will remember the people who created the world...

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was...

You know, he said, you have a really weird relationship with treason.

We're all traitors now. Ha! the old lady said. Only if we lose.

Your fancy alien train is broken?My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago...

Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you'd walk out of the roo...

The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local eco...

When you got a nail to drive, use the fucking hammer.

You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

I don’t kill children, she said. Not even when it’s the right thing to do.

I don’t see anything, Miller said. What’s it look like?The eye of an angry God? Elvi said.Oh, Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. Yea...

By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him.

Reputation never has very much to do with reality,

Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.

Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch!The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, Suck on this, asshole.The ship vibrated for half a second, the...

The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only dis...