Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment, but then you’re also committing to spend your time putting out fires.
Don’t, Naomi said, letting him go, pull your gun on anyone. They have guns. Guns plural. You have gun singular, which is why you will keep yours in your holster, or you’ll do this by yourself. That’s
He imagined himself landing on the station, and Miller saying, James Holden, you and only you in the universe have the correct chemical composition to make a perfect wormhole fuel!
Her disagreement was primarily with the level of glee over the destruction of the wicked that sometimes crept into the teachings.
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it. Anna
He’d never been to military pilot school, but he knew that years of training had compartmentalized Alex’s brain into two halves: piloting problems and, secondarily, everything else.
He’d read accounts of extravehicular euphoria, but the experience was unlike anything he’d imagined. He was the eye of God, drinking in the light of infinite stars, and he was a speck of dust on a spe...
He’s young. He still sleeps sometimes. It’s a weakness.
How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades.
How many millions of times had people had this exact conversation before? How many wars had put two people together for a moment and then washed them apart? There had to be a tradition of it. A secret...
Howdy, XO, he drawled. The old west affectation common to everyone from the Mariner Valley annoyed Holden. There hadn’t been a cowboy on Earth in a hundred years, and Mars didn’t have a blade of grass...
I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for.
I thought if you told people , they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About peo...
If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history.
If you don’t have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it.
It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.
It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emot...
What’s your doctorate in? she asked. Um. Structural biochemistry? Do you know what mine’s in? He shook his head for a change. Not structural biochemistry, she said gently. I
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