539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Change should be watched, moderated, and questioned. But that conservative view shouldn’t rein in progress or put a damper on hope.

Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.

That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all human power was changing, and the models she used to make sense of it shifted with them, and she had to keep reminding herself that the past was a different place. She didn’t live there anymore.

Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and threats were good too.

Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma.

Those kids? They’re illegal, but they don’t just vanish, not.

The deep human instinct to come together in crisis. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what made humanity human. But he also had the dark suspicion that it was a kind of bargaining. Look, universe, see how kind and gentle and nice I am? Don’t let the hammer fall on me. Even if it was only grief and fear, he’d take it. Anything that helped them all treat each other well.

Did he kill anyone?” Erich asked. When neither guard answered, he said, “Then he’s still being polite.

Excitement and dread wore each other’s clothes, spoke in the same voice.