There was no point to the attack except spite and the kind of violence that passed for meaning in the face of despair. - James S. A. Corey

The important thing is that we get good data. One person. Lots of people. All the same. But bad experimental design? That's what sin really is," Cortázar slurred. "That's not me either. Nature eats babies all the time.

No one asked after Dr. Cortázar. That, Teresa had come to understand, was one of the unwritten rules. When someone disappears, don’t ask why.

My own kind," she said. "Let me tell you about my own kind. There are two sides in this, but they aren't inner planets and outer ones. Belters and everyone else. It's not like that. It's the people who want more violence and the ones who want less. And no matter what other variable you sample out of, you'll find some of both.