539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for.

Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That’s what war is.

And that’s the point I keep trying to make with her, my friend. In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.

Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.

His first lover – Diane Redstone, her name was – had a phrase for moments like this. Nice woods, she’d say, and then get up out of their bed and go to work. He hadn’t understood where the saying came from until years after they parted for the last time. Now that he did, he couldn’t help harboring an irrational dislike of Robert Frost.

The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers.

Point of clarification,” Alex said, raising his hand. “We have an apocalypse comin’? Was that a thing we knew about?” “Venus,” Avasarala said. “Oh. That apocalypse,” Alex said, lowering his hand. “Right.

Well, mostly I’m a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante’s killer? That’s kind of awesome.

Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.