James S. A. Corey Quotes

I can't see how this all plays out.
Sure you do. Everyone dies. That's always been how it is. Only question now is whether we can find some way to not all go at once.
If we do, then civilization dies. Everything humanity has ever done goes away.
Well, at least there won't be anyone who misses it," Amos said, and sighed. "You're overthinking this, Cap'n. You got now and you got the second your lights go out. Meantime is the only time there is. All that matters is what we do during it.
I just want to go out knowing that things will be okay without me. That it all keeps going.
That you're not the one who dropped the ball.
Or maybe," Amos said, "you're not that important and it ain't up to you to fix the universe?
You always know how to cheer me up.

“Seems like the right tentacle ain’t keeping track of what the left tentacle’s up to,” Amos said.

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.

She was all out of later.

Owning your mistakes meant not making them twice.

Every miracle we’ve pulled off, we’ve done it using primates. Just because we’re capable of mind-blowing wonders doesn’t mean we aren’t still sex-and-murder machines. The organism doesn’t change.

We knew that, though.
We suspected it.
Do we know it now?
We suspect it harder," Elvi said. "We're scientists. We only know things until someone shows us we're wrong.

Anyone could die at any time, and the universe didn’t give a shit.

The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.

Fatalism had its dark attractions, after all. Hopelessness and despair could almost look restful.

We’re here to protect people’s freedom. I’m not sure what liberty is if you’re not permitted to decide what chances you’re willing to take.

But before they could go anywhere, they needed a place to go and a plan that was more fleshed out than Don’t die.

What we're doing here is bigger than politics.
I know," he said. "I just keep hoping the politicians see it too.

It also meant that their reaching out to the artifact had gotten it to reach back. Her experiment was working.
She’d expected success to feel less like fear.

Explain.
Short version," Ochida said, "light went faster.
Admiral Milan scratched his neck. "Did the word explain change meanings and no one told me?