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Quotes from Cibola Burn — James S. A. Corey

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Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

Cibola Burn (2014)

But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.

Cibola Burn (2014)

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right.

Cibola Burn (2014)

You mean you want me to make it look like you’re doing something while you figure out what to do.

Cibola Burn (2014)

She isn’t stupid, but she’s learning to fake it.

Cibola Burn (2014)

“Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.”
“I admire your psychotic optimism.”

Cibola Burn (2014)

Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.

Cibola Burn (2014)

From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.

Cibola Burn (2014)

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

Cibola Burn (2014)

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)

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

Cibola Burn (2014)

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

Cibola Burn (2014)

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)

They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they’d work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn’t something he’d ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

Cibola Burn (2014)

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