That was somewhere between a guess and a metaphor, but it helped her to think about it. - James S. A. Corey

The mirror plummeting toward the surface of Ganymede—toward his greenhouse, his soybeans, his life’s work—hadn’t chosen anything. It was a victim of cause and effect, the same as everything else.

That kind of attention changes people, and it don’t make them better.

Naomi couldn’t tell if she was more astounded by how much things had changed or how little.