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Quotes from Leviathan Falls — James S. A. Corey

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Anyone could die at any time, and the universe didn’t give a shit.

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Nothing humans can touch goes unmodified.

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Owning your mistakes meant not making them twice.

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The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.

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We’re here to protect people’s freedom. I’m not sure what liberty is if you’re not permitted to decide what chances you’re willing to take.

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Time for more smiling lies. More veiled threats. More—and he used the word as an epithet—diplomacy.

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But before they could go anywhere, they needed a place to go and a plan that was more fleshed out than Don’t die.

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“You make it sound like there’s a later in the game.”
Miller’s smile was enigmatic, and it looked a little like sorrow by the time it reached his eyes. “Until death all is life.”

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

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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.

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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.

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Fatalism had its dark attractions, after all. Hopelessness and despair could almost look restful.

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This was a new variation, but that was all. She wanted to believe that, and like anything she fund herself wanting to be true, she forced herself to double-check it.

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It also meant that their reaching out to the artifact had gotten it to reach back. Her experiment was working.
She’d expected success to feel less like fear.

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He was grandiose. He was ruthless. He was a genius at a couple of things and under the misapprehension that it meant he was smart about everything. But in his mind, he was doing the right thing.

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Jim’s sigh was soft, gentle. It would have been less devastating if she hadn’t heard the despair under it. “Detective Miller once told me, ‘We don’t have a right thing, just a plateful of a little less wrong.’”
“Yeah, but he was an asshole.”

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She was all out of later.

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Instead of actual experiential reports, Tanaka and her team gave versions of their own. Elvi had been in academics long enough to recognize when someone was glossing over data and skipping straight to interpretation. It almost always meant they were avoiding something they found unpalatable.

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