James S.A. Corey

“But humans hadn’t been living and working in space nearly long enough for the primitive part of the brain not to say,…

— James S.A. Corey

“I can get you some stimulants if you’d like, but there’s no coffee.” “Right,” Holden said. “No coffee. This is a terrible,…

— James S.A. Corey

“She was going to see a world in the aftermath of utter disaster, but she would still see it. And the state…

— James S.A. Corey

“Could we please not assault the patient with the crushed spinal cord,” she said as she did, “because this makes me very…

— James S.A. Corey

“...any government was going to have traffic laws. Before the Emperor, the Republic had enforced its edicts at the laser-sharp edge of…

— James S.A. Corey

“Do we have a plan?” “A couple,” Jim said. “Either of them good?” “Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of…

— James S.A. Corey

“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that…

— James S.A. Corey

“What happened?" she asked. "The landing pad blew up." "Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?" "No. No, they really…

— James S.A. Corey

“In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud,…

— James S.A. Corey

“Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value…

— James S.A. Corey

“they’d been driven to find out what was on the other side of the long trip. Driven by a need to see…

— James S.A. Corey

“We all grieve in our own ways,” Avasarala said. “For what it’s worth, you’ll never kill enough people to keep your platoon…

— James S.A. Corey

“You’re cranky because you’re tired,” Amos said. “You got that I-have-to-save-everyone hangup, so I make it that you haven’t slept in about…

— James S.A. Corey

“So are you conscious?” The alien robot—the skin the Miller construct was using—shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. “Don’t…

— James S.A. Corey

“You think he may be a triple agent?” “It wouldn’t be the first time something like that had happened. The one thing…

— James S.A. Corey

“If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to…

— James S.A. Corey

“If the last few weeks had taught Han anything, it was that he didn’t belong in the civilised part of her world.…

— James S.A. Corey

“Bobbie kept talking. "Seriously. Get me a gun, I'm a soldier. Get that suit for me, I'm a superhero.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn’t needed to destroy humanity. They’d given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a…

— James S.A. Corey

“...This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule." "Semi-autonomous," the alien said.…

— James S.A. Corey

“He imagined himself landing on the station, and Miller saying, James Holden, you and only you in the universe have the correct…

— James S.A. Corey

“Anyone who had not had his determination, ruthlessness, and luck deserved pretty much whatever shit he handed to them.”

— James S.A. Corey

“If you start feeling wonderful and powerful and like you’ve seen the face of God, you’re having a euphoric attack.”

— James S.A. Corey

“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

“Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long…

— James S.A. Corey

“Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then…

— James S.A. Corey

“Her disagreement was primarily with the level of glee over the destruction of the wicked that sometimes crept into the teachings.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Doesn’t take much before we have to compromise ourselves, does it?” “Get born,” Michio said, pulling”

— James S.A. Corey

“What are you thinking, Amos?” “Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up…

— James S.A. Corey

“I hope he knows what he’s doing, trusting delicate work like this to agents of chaos like us.” Amos”

— James S.A. Corey

“It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to…

— James S.A. Corey

“Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The others had been laughing until Bobbie reminded them that low-power radio wasn’t radio silence and politely suggested they all shut the…

— James S.A. Corey

“So I think to myself,” the bartender said, reaching back toward the glassware by the mirror, “you’re here for something. The Butcher…

— James S.A. Corey

“Poker is a game, too," Bobbie said. "But sometimes the stakes get so high that one player decides it's easier to kill…

— James S.A. Corey

“You dropped a hammer under thrust, and it fell to the deck. Your government slaughtered six families of ethnic Chinese prospectors, someone…

— James S.A. Corey

“He won’t be on a ship trying to destroy the Ring anymore. He won’t be supporting Ashford anymore. All of the circumstances…

— James S.A. Corey

“That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible…

— James S.A. Corey

“You killed Dresden,” Fred said. “That’s a problem.” “It needed to happen.” “I’m not sure it did,” Fred replied, but his voice…

— James S.A. Corey

“In his experience, everyone dealt with pushing too hard differently. Some got angry and irritable, some got sad. At a guess, it…

— James S.A. Corey