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Quotes from Tiamat's Wrath — James S. A. Corey

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In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.

Tiamat's Wrath (2019)

The chime rang, calling them all to the dining room like the most privileged cattle in the universe.

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I’m not sure if dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.

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Pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.

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Fashion never stopped. It was one of many things Naomi was pleased that age allowed her not to care about anymore.

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Holden’s a decent person. Decent people have trouble with murdering children.

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I’m going to go obsessively run diagnostics on systems I know are solid so I can feel like I have control of something.

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“Thank you for your time, Doctor. My door is always open to you.”
It was, she thought, an ironic way to tell her to leave.

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What you’re really doing is trying to win back what you’ve lost by going all in. It’s shitty poker, and even worse as a battle strategy.

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Naomi shook her head once, tightly, and held on to her anger like it was a vaccine against something worse.

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The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.

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She’d been a different girl then. He’d been a different man. She missed both of them.

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That was somewhere between a guess and a metaphor, but it helped her to think about it.

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There had to have been a moment when this had become the new normal.

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Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did.

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It was like a Chihuahua threatening an office building.

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And if there was one thing that her decades in academic science had drilled into her consciousness, it was that power meant policy.

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Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.

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She was rejoicing and mourning at the same time. And also feeling the deep unease that came from the reminder that being familiar wasn’t the same as being understood.

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Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don’t ask questions.

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Attribution

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