If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too. He
If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too,
If Miller squinted, he could see the seventeen-year-old boy he had been under the layers of time and disappointment
I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen. Well, you’ll learn your lessons soon enough, and it’s not my job to nursemaid the specie...
I hear Montana is nice. Population density is good. Still more cows than people.
I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for.
I can’t fight pirates without coffee.
I believe there is a dignity in consequences, Captain. I think there’s a kind of truth in them, and I try to cultivate a profound respect for truth.
I am declaring this vessel in violation of laws and standards, Avasarala said. Cotyar, you’re witness to that. As you say, ma’am. All right, then. Bobbie. Get me control of this fucking ship.
Humanity hadn’t changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him.
Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’...
Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit. A
How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog’s been humping my skull.
History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from.
He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would ever be. No compromise he could make would be enough. His death-...
Hey, she said. Hey. So I have a thing. Is it a thing I can fix? Holden asked. Point me at the thing.
Here’s the thing, Amos said. If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we’d all be doing things, and we’d all wind...
He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it happen. And a very good person loved him. It was more than most people got in a...
He looked like a kid who just realized he’d jumped in the deep end of the pool and was trying to figure out whether he should embarrass himself by shouting for help or drown with a little dignity.
He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.