539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.

Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment, but then you’re also committing to spend your time putting out fires.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp.

Water from Saturn, vegetables and beef from the big mirror-fed greenhouses on Ganymede and Europa, organics from Earth and Mars. Power cells from Io, Helium-3 from the refineries on Rhea and Iapetus. A river of wealth and power unrivaled in human history came through Ceres.

Thing about civilization, it’s what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.

He hadn’t been aware he’d felt wrong until he suddenly felt right again.

You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you.

It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.” In.