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Quotes from Babylon's Ashes — James S. A. Corey

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A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it’s too late.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

She’d ended with I’ll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

If we’re not willing to win the fight, I’m not sure what we’re doing in the cage.

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“Dying’s not an art project.”
“Maybe it should be.”

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Politics is the art of the possible, Captain Pa. When you play at our level, grudges cost lives.

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

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.

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

Babylon's Ashes (2016)

If wars began with rage, they ended with exhaustion.

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Some things were secret even after you told them.

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

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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.

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Josep grunted. “Could be prophecy.”
“Could be that the universe doesn’t give a shit about us or anything we do and your mystic bullshit’s just a way we try to pretend otherwise.”

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It was the widest concerted attack ever. Hundreds of ships on at least four sides. Dozens of stations, millions of lives.
Among the stars, it didn’t stand out.

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All of them do what they think is right, and tell themselves that they’re moral people with the strength to do the necessary things, however terrible they seem at the time. Every atrocity that has been done to us had someone behind it who thought what they did was justified. And here I am. A moral person with the strength to do this. Because it’s justified.

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