James S. A. Corey Quotes

History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster.

There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?

Some things were secret even after you told them.

He was grandiose. He was ruthless. He was a genius at a couple of things and under the misapprehension that it meant he was smart about everything. But in his mind, he was doing the right thing.

They were willing to risk a hole in the ship emptying out half the ship’s air rather than let her up to the bridge. It was sort of gratifying to be scarier than sudden decompression.

The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.

I was looking at the oak and recognizing the acorn.

Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.
I admire your psychotic optimism.

It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.

We'll get him," Alex said. "We'll always get him back.
Sure we will. Until the time we don't," she said. "It's like this for everyone. There's always going to be a last time, eventually.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

You think we're going to die?
Yup.
Of this?
Maybe.

Her fantasies of it were so strong, they were like memories.

There had to have been a moment when this had become the new normal.

But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.