It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building. - James S. A. Corey

Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.

We never had a chance," he said. "Look at all this. We never stood a chance against this.
We did not," Else agreed. "Too bad we didn't know.
Knowing wouldn't have mattered." ... "We'd have fought anyway," he said, thinking of Ostencour and his improvised knife. Synnia wrestling down the guard. "It's what we do.
I don't know if that idea is stupid or noble," Else said.
Human," Dafyd said. "It's just human. We don't stop just because there's no hope.

“Me? You don’t want to judge anything by me. I don’t even trust God.”
“You are absolutely the worst mystic ever,” Pa said, but she said it laughing.