539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

It’s all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.

Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses.

She tapped the red dot on the map that was the Tempest. “Anything you can do, I can do better.

The damage to her body, the wear and the weariness, were all products of conscious, determined choices made by a girl she hadn’t been in decades. She carried the weight of those decisions like a sack of bones.

We’re not people,” he said. “We’re the stories that people tell each other about us.

Also, Nathan, if you’re listening, and I assume you are, I’m the best and only friend you’ve got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I’ll have you turning tricks out of a prefab shed on the side of the highway. I’m trying to save humanity here.

Downtime’s easier to enjoy when I know it’ll end.

Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she’d taken the job to escape prosecution for killing an ex-husband. Holden liked her.

And how are you doing?” He didn’t ask because he needed an answer. He asked because he needed her to know the answer mattered to him.