An invisible line in space, unmarked by anything more than what people believed about it. And that was enough. - James S. A. Corey

He lifted the gun.
“Wait!” Singh said. “Wait. Do you believe all that? About what killing me is supposed to achieve?”
“I am an officer of the Laconian Empire, Governor Singh. I believe what I’m told to believe.”

Thing is, we’re humans. We’re tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again.

I'm not asking you to sleep with him.
Good, because I don't use sex as a weapon," Bobbie said. "I use weapons as weapons.