James S.A. Corey

Quotes

• “Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten w...”
• “This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of Armageddon. Pictures...”
• “Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch!"The ship stopped moving, and Alex said...”
• “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...”
• “The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real b...”
• “Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small...”
• “Your fancy alien train is broken?""My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion ye...”
• “Tilly screamed. Anna’s shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever sol...”
• “He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”Holden ran his fingers throu...”
• “I mean, yes, I did ask that. But that’s not the part that you should be caring about right now. You lied to me. Your inv...”
• “All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. W...”
• “If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make ...”
• “Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death th...”
• “Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebel...”
• “The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded h...”
• “Yeah," Chris said. "I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the sa...”
• “Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothin...”
• “The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by ...”
• “Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that...”
• “That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more...”
• “The sex,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us.”“Well,” she sai...”
• “The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding e...”
• “His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry ...”
• “Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atm...”
• “And somehow, that changed everything about sex. The movements might all be the same, but the desire to communicate affec...”
• “By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patie...”
• “He almost blacks out again, but he’s not sure if it’s the stroke or the thrust gravity. He’s pretty sure driving blood p...”
• “She'd been attacked. Just after she came to the Belt. She was seeing that it didn't happen twice.""Attacked," Miller sai...”
• “Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitt...”
• “Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and ...”
• “You know,” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may b...”
• “You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like ...”
• “We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later i...”
• “He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in...”
• “It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to da...”
• “For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eye...”
• “The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round...”
• “I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do...”
• “Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.”
• “Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.”
• “A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.”
• “It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.”
• “A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.”
• “No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”
• “I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.She shrugged.'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said...”
• “A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it.”
• “That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
• “On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room.”
• “Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.”
• “The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.”