539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.

There aren’t any new starts,” Bobbie said. “All the new ones pack the old ones along with them. If we ever really started fresh, it’d mean not having a history anymore. I don’t know how to do that.

I’m not sure dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.

She liked the analogy not because it was accurate, but because it was evocative. That was what made analogies useful.

Your fancy alien train is broken?” “My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running.

The ones that don’t kill you don’t count.

Nothing that’ll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker.

In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.

Owning your own racing ship wasn’t even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh’s pyramid with a reaction drive.