Put a dozen people in front of their cameras, and you’d wind up with thirteen opinions. - James S. A. Corey

The universe was filled with mysteries and beauty and awe, and all that they could manage to do with it was this. Chase each other down and see who was the faster draw.

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

She had to remind herself that war was always this way. Had always been. Cities had been falling under siege since the time there were cities. Mortars had fallen on schools. Soldiers had stormed hospitals. Bombs had set churches and parks and children on fire. Homes had been lost before now.