She couldn’t beat sense into a stone. Not even when it seemed fun to try. - James S. A. Corey

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

Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?
Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

Even with all that metal and ceramic crammed into the same little corner of space, even with the relatively tiny thousand klicks across what was the inner face of the Ring, the chances that he’d run into anything were trivial. There was a lot more nothing than something.