If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known. Odd that it should feel al… - James S. A. Corey

Djuna had stopped letting him watch the local newsfeeds at breakfast on the weekends. Too many stories about bodies being found in unfortunate conditions. Too many missing people, too many espionage claims, too many reminders from the still-official security apparatus that Pinkwater was an unaffiliated corporate entity with no political litmus tests and only the safety and well-being of the citizens of Ganymede at heart. The sorts of things people said because they weren’t true.

The intensity of your feelings isn’t evidence.

She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took.