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James S. A. Corey Quotes

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Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

That was somewhere between a guess and a metaphor, but it helped her to think about it.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

There were a lot of holes in that logic that he carefully avoided thinking about.

Cibola Burn (2014)

She was reaching for supernatural answers when memory and mundanity were enough.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

He had been desperate for a narrative, and now that I’d given him one, it seemed unlikely that he would see anything else.

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

What had been logical became dumb, and all it took was changing the context.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

“This isn't fair.”
“We don't deal with fair here. We deal with the law.”

Judas Iscariot Didn’t Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments (2024)

There had to have been a moment when this had become the new normal.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.

Cibola Burn (2014)

Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

“Seriously?”
“Yep.”
“That’s a really stupid way to go through life.”
“It’s how most people do.”
“Then most people are really stupid.”

Nemesis Games (2015)

Secrecy is the potting soil in which all this conspiracy shit grows. Trust me. The roaches don’t like it when you start shining a light on them.

Nemesis Games (2015)

It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

It was a day with a lot of ways to die packed in it.

Persepolis Rising (2017)

Ashford has only ever done a right thing because he’s afraid of being embarrassed. He’s a pretty uniform surrounding vacuum. And you can’t rely on that.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

Drummer had read somewhere that newsfeeds were where secular societies went to find out what cultural narratives were important and what could be ignored.

Persepolis Rising (2017)

Every miracle we’ve pulled off, we’ve done it using primates. Just because we’re capable of mind-blowing wonders doesn’t mean we aren’t still sex-and-murder machines. The organism doesn’t change.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

Something in the back of her head shifted. The serpent of learned helplessness long asleep starting to wake. She pretended it wasn’t there, in hopes that if she denied it enough, it wouldn’t exist.

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.