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Quotes from Leviathan Wakes — James S. A. Corey

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The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of ’em.

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Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.

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That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.

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He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren’t anyone’s strong suit.

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Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.

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If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known.
Odd that it should feel almost like relief.

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The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.

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He couldn’t fix the cancer of war, couldn’t even slow down the spread, but at least he could admit it was happening.

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Never knew if you had any luck left unless you pushed it.

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Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

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If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.

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It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.

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

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It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.

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There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?

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This was the kind of man who’d killed Julie, Miller thought. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been.

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He probed himself like a doctor searching for inflammation. Did it hurt here? Did he feel the loss there?
He didn’t. There was only a sense of relief so profound it approached giddiness.

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He considered recording it. His suit would be able to make a simple visual file and stream the data out in real time. But no. This was his moment. His and Julia’s. The rest of humanity could guess what it had been like if they cared.

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Holden decided that he was okay with not feeling any remorse for them. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.

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It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

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Attribution

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