7 Quotes by James S. A. Corey

Intension is irrelevant. Only outcomes matter.

Intention is irrelevant. Only outcomes matter.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

Fish and company start to smell after three days.

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

To beat a man—even to beat a man to death—was at least proof that you took him seriously as a man.

and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust.