539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

A small house is a deeper kind of luxury," her husband said. "To live in a space entirely our own, to remember the simple pleasures of baking bread and washing your own dishes. This is what your friends in high places forget. It makes them less human.

So far, Tycho was the one place no one had tried to shoot them, or blow them up, or vomit goo on them, and that practically made it home.

Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

Knowing that all you can give isn’t enough is its own burden.

I don’t know what’s going to happen”, she said. “Noone ever does”, he said.

Space is too big," Basia replied."It's been said. And this is just the space in low orbit around one planet. Breaks the head a bit to think about.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

She looked for the words that would bring him back, the ones that would tell him that he had been wrong and evil and now he was going to die badly at the hands of his own weapon and somehow make it all right. She looked at this angry, small, shortsighted, frightened little man and tried to find the way to pull him back to simple human decency. She failed.

Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’ gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered a lot more close-enough-is-close-enough than actual design.