This was a new variation, but that was all. She wanted to believe that, and like anything she fund herself wanting to be true, she forced herself to … - James S. A. Corey

It's the reward of old age," Avasarala said. "You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.
You're not selling it," Drummer said.
Fuck you, then. Die young. See if I care.

History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.

“See, this is why I can’t ever be in command,” she said.
“Don’t like making tough calls with incomplete information?”
“More I’m not suicidally irresponsible,” she replied.