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Insects buzzed about, still the best-designed pollinating system there was. Technology did a lot of things well, but evolution had it beat when it came to environmental systems.
Persepolis Rising (2017)
Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.
Caliban's War (2012)
She grinned to herself. Safe. That sounded like a good plan. She should try that for a change.
Nemesis Games (2015)
My dad used to say that anyone who believes in a fair fight has never been in a fight.
Livesuit (2024)
She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took.
Nemesis Games (2015)
She wondered what it said about her that she’d watched a woman shot to death not two hours before and all she could think about now was lunch.
Abaddon's Gate (2013)
Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don’t ask questions.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
Avasarala stretched her right leg, feeling the ache in it. It would be worse in the morning. Lifting weights was an argument against a benign God. As if that needed more evidence.
Babylon's Ashes (2016)
Alex’s experience of real family—of blood relations—was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.
Nemesis Games (2015)
Alex worried about that. Jillian was mean as a snake. When he’d told Bobbie that, she’d responded, I just make sure she never runs out of mice. He still didn’t know quite what that meant.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
Fatalism had its dark attractions, after all. Hopelessness and despair could almost look restful.
Leviathan Falls (2021)
This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
She had been a pawn in Holden’s chess game. And Holden had gotten her to the last rank and promoted her to a queen.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
That was the thing about hubris. It only became clear in retrospect.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
He was curious because he chose to be. It didn’t make him stupid.
The Mercy of Gods (2024)
It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.
Leviathan Wakes (2011)
This was a new variation, but that was all. She wanted to believe that, and like anything she fund herself wanting to be true, she forced herself to double-check it.
Leviathan Falls (2021)
That’s what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
It had seemed like a kind of magnanimity at the time. It looked more like necessity now.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?
Leviathan Wakes (2011)