539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

He’d been driven by his fear to become someone else. Someone who handled fear by turning it into violence.

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.

We’re back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something.

Need help on your way out?” the guard asked. “Naw,” Amos replied and hoisted the box over one shoulder. “I’m good at leaving.

You know,” he said, “you have a really weird relationship with treason.

It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.

Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race, and opportunity, vicious competition and limited resources, that kept all but the most driven from a profession and actual currency.

I didn’t switch sides. I stopped playing.

Anyway, that’s not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don’t understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he’ll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he’d say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It’s what he is.