Everyone spies on everyone, Camina. Let’s not pretend to be outraged at water for being wet.
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No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.
Abaddon's Gate (2013)
When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.
Abaddon's Gate (2013)
The Mercy of Gods (2024)
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
Holden’s a decent person. Decent people have trouble with murdering children.
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
You think you know what I am, she thought, but all you’ve got is stories.
Nemesis Games (2015)
She wanted to care, but she didn’t. She didn’t have time.
Nemesis Games (2015)
If you are strong, you will serve in your life. If not, you will serve in your death. All serve.
The Mercy of Gods (2024)
Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.
Cibola Burn (2014)
The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.
Leviathan Falls (2021)
She’d ended with I’ll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged.
Babylon's Ashes (2016)
Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied.
Persepolis Rising (2017)
The Mercy of Gods (2024)
From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.
Cibola Burn (2014)
“You are a special flower.”
“Well, sure. Just not used to anybody appreciating it.”
Nemesis Games (2015)
“Why aren’t you doing that?”
“Do you want the real reason, or my justification?”
Caliban's War (2012)
If we’re not willing to win the fight, I’m not sure what we’re doing in the cage.
Babylon's Ashes (2016)
Tiamat's Wrath (2019)
Nemesis Games (2015)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James S. A. Corey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.