539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Nothing as big as a revolution can survive with only one account of it.

If life transcends deathThen I will seek for you thereIf not, then there too

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

Brother. If I call you sister, you call me brother, see, because –

There’s this thing when you get older where you have to make a choice. Everyone does. You have to decide whether you care more about being your best self or your real one. If you’re more loyal to who you ought to be or who you really are.

There’s a dignity in consequences.