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James S. A. Corey Quotes

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James S. A.

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She couldn’t beat sense into a stone. Not even when it seemed fun to try.

Persepolis Rising (2017)

It’s the basic problem with religion, be it Jesus or Vishnu or God Emperors. Ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy.

Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection (2022)

What you’re really doing is trying to win back what you’ve lost by going all in. It’s shitty poker, and even worse as a battle strategy.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

We’re here to protect people’s freedom. I’m not sure what liberty is if you’re not permitted to decide what chances you’re willing to take.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

That’s not a government, it’s a rugby scrum with a currency.

Caliban's War (2012)

I’m drunk. Hypocrisy is the natural companion of beer.

The Mercy of Gods (2024)

Why me? is not something the universe ever answers.

The Mercy of Gods (2024)

I’ve been famous before. It’s not so great.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known.
Odd that it should feel almost like relief.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

The universe was filled with mysteries and beauty and awe, and all that they could manage to do with it was this. Chase each other down and see who was the faster draw.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn’t needed to destroy humanity. They’d given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they’d leaped on it.

Nemesis Games (2015)

Writing science fiction is a race between the author's imagination and the progress of science and history. Fiction is always on the losing end; the question is only how fast.

Time for more smiling lies. More veiled threats. More—and he used the word as an epithet—diplomacy.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

Naomi shook her head once, tightly, and held on to her anger like it was a vaccine against something worse.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

Naomi couldn’t tell if she was more astounded by how much things had changed or how little.

Nemesis Games (2015)

There was no amount of double-checking that would ever prove that nothing had been missed.

Nemesis Games (2015)

She’d stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.

Caliban's War (2012)

But before they could go anywhere, they needed a place to go and a plan that was more fleshed out than Don’t die.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James S. A. Corey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.