James S.A. Corey

“her almost-son and sometime-lover”

— James S.A. Corey

“You’re too old for fairy tales,” Baasen said.”

— James S.A. Corey

“the lizard living at the base of her spine”

— James S.A. Corey

“No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. So”

— James S.A. Corey

“Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine.”

— James S.A. Corey

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

— James S.A. Corey

“said something obscene.”

— James S.A. Corey

“It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.”

— James S.A. Corey

“You train dogs by rewarding them. Punishment doesn’t actually work.”

— James S.A. Corey

“If life transcends death, then I will search for you there.”

— James S.A. Corey

“It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. Shaking,”

— James S.A. Corey

“Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The only right you have with anyone in life is the right to walk away.”

— James S.A. Corey

“die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest”

— James S.A. Corey

“We’re outgunned and outplanned, and I don’t see how we win.”

— James S.A. Corey

“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

“I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Annie," Tilly said. "If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth…

— James S.A. Corey

“How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for…

— James S.A. Corey

“I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean…

— James S.A. Corey

“Alex said. “This is Medina Station under occupation by a bunch of splinter Martian military expats. It’s not Baltimore.” Amos’ smile was…

— James S.A. Corey

“Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and…

— James S.A. Corey

“There were going to be plenty of them who would have been just as opposed to the Republic. Trust the wrong one,…

— James S.A. Corey

“The sex,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us.” “Well,”…

— James S.A. Corey

“Do you believe in the concept of forgiveness? In the possibility of redemption? In the value of every human life, no matter…

— James S.A. Corey

“We’re not anarchists,” she said. “We have goals. We want to end the Empire.” “And replace it with what? “You know what,”…

— James S.A. Corey

“He’s slaughtered billions of people and remade the shape of human civilization. No one can do something on that scale and see…

— James S.A. Corey

“The name ROCINANTE was on the wall in letters as broad as his hand, and someone had added a stencil of a…

— James S.A. Corey

“The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round…

— James S.A. Corey

“Yeah,” Alex said in his drawling voice. “I mean, Naomi only got beat half to death. She can cut this Clarissa slack,…

— James S.A. Corey

“Even in the first morning after the catastrophe began, security teams were calling on Liev’s underlings, sweeping them up for questioning. Some,…

— James S.A. Corey

“Everything about the former colonial administrative offices made Holden sad. The drab, institutional green walls, the cluster of cubicles in the central…

— James S.A. Corey

“She had seen Holden on the newsfeeds and reports. At the beginning of the war between Mars and the Belt, he had…

— James S.A. Corey

“This isn’t about good guys and bad guys,” Anna said. “Yes, we’ve picked sides now, because some of the actions they are…

— James S.A. Corey

“Saber rattling we’ve done before,” she said. “We’ve survived it. It’s a known quantity. I have a binder with nine hundred pages…

— James S.A. Corey

“… you want me to lead it,” Holden said. “Yes,” Avasarala said, “because literally even UN Naval officer who wasn’t dishonorable discharged…

— James S.A. Corey

“The slow zone, based on the sensor data we’re able to get, is approximately one million kilometers across.” Holden pointed at the…

— James S.A. Corey

“A few people liked to paint this drive as a weakness. A failing of the species. Humanity as the virus. The creature…

— James S.A. Corey