539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Shikata ga fucking nai, sa sa?-Naomi

They weren’t really stopping, of course. Nothing in space ever actually stopped; it only came into a matching orbit with some other object.

Sleeping and waking lost their edges. Healing and being ill too. It was difficult if not impossible to draw a line between them.

Wars never ended because one side was defeated. They ended because the enemies were reconciled. Anything else was just a postponement of the next round of violence.

Chapter Nineteen: Elvi “That star wasn’t natural, it was created. And it was created from a system that looked like Sol. It was manufactured and it was pointed at the ring gate. They aimed it like tying a shotgun trigger to a doorknob. Our bomb ship did something to activate it. Maybe it got something to come look at us, and that’s what set it off. I don’t know. But it was built to be a booby trap.” Tiamat's Wrath

But, Bobbie? Really, really don’t die out there.” “No one lives forever, sir,” Bobbie said, “but as long as it doesn’t compromise the mission, I’ll try to live through it.” “Thanks.

Stars are better off without us.

What did you do?” Fred asked. “There was a button,” Holden said. “I pushed it.” “Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn’t it?

It’s the basic problem with religion, be it Jesus or Vishnu or God Emperors. Ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy.