James S.A. Corey Quotes

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

Reputation never has very much to do with reality, she said. 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...

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

She tapped the red dot on the map that was the Tempest. Anything you can do, I can do better.

Sure, boss, Havelock said. Cool as November, smooth as China silk.

That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.

That wasn't political, she said. He's a performance artist.

That’s the secret, you know. What’s the secret? Kajri smiled. The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarr...

The bartender – Chip – said, Had a few too many of my margaritas? The first one was too many, Holden replied, then climbed under the booth looking for the terminal. And calling that a margarita should...

The best find hadn’t been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even

The best governments in history have been kings and emperors, Duarte said. The worst ones too. A philosopher-king can manage great things in his lifetime. And his grandchildren can squander it.

The deep human instinct to come together in crisis. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what made humanity human. But he also had the dark suspicion that it was a kind of bargaining....

The idea that animal suffering is less important than human suffering is a religious one. It assumes a special creation, and that we—you and I—are different in kind than other animals. We are morally...

The name ROCINANTE was on the wall in letters as broad as his hand, and someone had added a stencil of a spray of yellow narcissus. It looked desperately out of place and very appropriate at the same...

The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that...

The problem with you is that you are wasteful. I’m not a fucking coward, Fred said through his rapidly swelling lip. Of course you are. You’re smart, you’re healthy. Maybe a few hundred people out of...

The reactions of the talking heads of Earth security forces ran the gamut from calm, rational discussion of preemptive defense to foaming-at-the-mouth denunciations of Mars as a pack of baby-raping an...

The second corpse sat up and then stood, clutching her belly. A man stepped into the frame, a gun in his hand, healing her by sucking the bullet from her guts. They argued, grew calm, parted peaceably...

The torches flared and died and flared again. The Rocinante was remade a little, the same way it had been over and over through the years. Little changes adding up over time as the ship moved from wha...

The whole voting thing had seemed like such a good idea when he’d first brought it up. After losing his first vote, not so much. They’d all be dead in two days, so at least it probably wouldn’t happen...