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Quotes from Caliban's War — James S. A. Corey

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That man’s asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space.

Caliban's War (2012)

Familiarity might breed contempt, but Bobbie hadn’t much liked Soren right from the start.

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I hope we don’t start shooting, but what I hope will happen and what actually happens are almost never the same.

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Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.

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The intensity of your feelings isn’t evidence.

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If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

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The truth was her version wasn’t any more or less a fantasy than his. No one would know for sure until everyone knew for sure.

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“Why aren’t you doing that?”
“Do you want the real reason, or my justification?”

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

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

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The rich scent of well-balanced soil was like incense.

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The mirror plummeting toward the surface of Ganymede—toward his greenhouse, his soybeans, his life’s work—hadn’t chosen anything. It was a victim of cause and effect, the same as everything else.

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Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.

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Owning your own racing ship wasn’t even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh’s pyramid with a reaction drive.

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There was justice to be had.
He just couldn’t afford it.

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The holy fool who’d dragged the solar system into war and seemed utterly blind to the damage he caused. An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was.

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They were willing to risk a hole in the ship emptying out half the ship’s air rather than let her up to the bridge. It was sort of gratifying to be scarier than sudden decompression.

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I’ve been through a lot of hearings about one damn thing and another. Most of the time they’re exercises in ass covering. If the unvarnished truth ever came out at one, it would be because someone screwed up.

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When Bobbie tried to imagine being so wealthy you could own a spaceship just to compete in races, she failed. That the same girl had run away to be an OPA rebel probably said a lot about the relationship of wealth and contentment, but Bobbie had a hard time being that philosophical.

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The proportions, the black hair, the dark eyes, everything was the same. Only, giant. It short-circuited his neural wiring. The lizard living at the back of his brain kept jumping back and forth between Mate with it! and Flee from it!

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Attribution

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