539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.

The sweetness of sugar overcame everything for children. Even loss. There was something profound in that. Beautiful and sad both.

At home on Mars, wind and dust changed the landscape hourly. Here, she was walking through the footsteps of the day before and the day before and the day before. And if she never came back, those footprints would outlive her. Privately, she thought it was a sort of creepy.

Partners,” she said, and fired two rounds into his head.

Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.

The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire.

Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that periodically changed the rules of physics and had killed a bunch of them, but now they’d decided to start shooting each other too.Yes, very bad.

But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.