“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t as though they had a second Earth to use as a control. History itself was a massive n = 1… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I’m as surprised as you are,” Avasarala said. “Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“The best governments in history have been kings and emperors,” Duarte said. “The worst ones too. A philosopher-king can manage great things… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic,… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“They’d never precisely been friends, but they’d managed to stop the human race from being wiped out by a corporation’s self-induced sociopathy… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“This attack is the greatest tragedy in human history,” Avasarala said. “They want the belt to rise up so they can hide… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.” He” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“Oh, I’m not dying out here,” Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. “Worst-case scenario, I’m dying inside… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“The mech hadn’t been designed for violence, but it was suited for it. That made her and it the same.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“For another thing, we’re under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“This attack is the greatest tragedy in human history,” Avasarala said. “They want the belt to rise up so they can hide behind the… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“Church of Humanity Ascendant, a religion that eschewed supernaturalism in all forms, and whose theology boiled down to Humans can be better than they… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“Oh good,” Amos replied. “Somebody got killed there. That’s how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“But humans hadn’t been living and working in space nearly long enough for the primitive part of the brain not to say, I’ll fall,… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“I like the backup plan better,” Amos said. “Backup plan?” Prax asked. “The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
“She had seen Holden on the newsfeeds and reports. At the beginning of the war between Mars and the Belt, he had been the… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share
