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James S. A.

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An invisible line in space, unmarked by anything more than what people believed about it. And that was enough.

Persepolis Rising (2017)

“The founding impulse of Freehold is sticking it to the government.”
“Loses some of its shine after you get elected.”

Persepolis Rising (2017)

Some secrets stayed secrets because nobody knew them. Some because nobody told.

Cibola Burn (2014)

And if there was one thing that her decades in academic science had drilled into her consciousness, it was that power meant policy.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

They’d made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they’d hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

Holden yelled in frustration. The universe kept waiting until he was thoroughly beaten, then tossing him a nibble of hope only to yank it away again.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

It seemed like the kind of asserted reality—the willful decision to believe that people would act the way you preferred that they would—that posed a constant threat to those of us in research.

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

Everything about this is gross. Everything. It’s a status fuck. Finding the man with the most pull in the group and diving into his lap. It’s disgusting.

The Mercy of Gods (2024)

The engineers groaned and shook their heads. Legal arguments were another phrase for bullshit to them.

Cibola Burn (2014)

History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous.

Cibola Burn (2014)

There was no point to the attack except spite and the kind of violence that passed for meaning in the face of despair.

Cibola Burn (2014)

Holden couldn’t tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar.

Nemesis Games (2015)

She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.

Abaddon's Gate (2013)

She didn’t care. Not caring was how she got through the day.

Leviathan Wakes (2011)

Teresa seemed older than adolescent Jim had been, both more knowledgeable about the universe and angrier with it. Maybe the two went hand in hand.

Leviathan Falls (2021)

She wanted to believe. But she also knew better.

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

She was rejoicing and mourning at the same time. And also feeling the deep unease that came from the reminder that being familiar wasn’t the same as being understood.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

Looked at in a wide enough frame, maybe her problems weren’t so large. They just seemed that way when she held them up against her eyes where they’d block out all the light.

The Mercy of Gods (2024)

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