It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory.
It keeps people calm. That’s the important thing. Holden thinks he’s a hero, power to the people, information wants to be free blah blah blah, but he’s a fucking moron. He’s on his own ship. Avasarala...
It seems to me the better question is whether there’s any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.
It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he’d spent running down the wrong road.
It was normal to sacrifice animals. Rats, pigeons, pigs. Dogs. Chimpanzees. Biology had always suffered the cognitive push-pull of proving that humans were just another kind of animal while at the sam...
It was possible she was hurling her prayers at a cold and unfeeling universe that didn’t hear them, but that wasn’t how it felt. Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one im...
It was strange how nothing could change while everything did.
It was the widest concerted attack ever. Hundreds of ships on at least four sides. Dozens of stations, millions of lives. Among the stars, it didn’t stand out.
It’s always been like this, he thinks. From when Moses saw the promised land that he could never enter, people have been on their deathbeds just wanting to see what happens next. He wonders if that’s...
It’s not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it’s all an enemy plot, at least there’s someone calling the shots.
It’s weird as tits on a bishop, but who knows if it means anything? They’re
I’m an engineer, not a damned hairstylist, Naomi said,
I’m an engineer, Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. Did eight years on Tycho Station! I’m not going to get used like a fucking technician.
I’m not sure dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.
I’m twenty years too old, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got the wrong plumbin’, but I like that gal.
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...
Keel-mounted rail gun, Alex said with a grin. —that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
Mom, Holden said. Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We’re not a different species.
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough. At
My love is a pure love, Alex said with a grin. I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it. The kind poets write about, then.
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