James S.A. Corey Quotes

His words were full of hope and threat.

Like the stars.

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It was the security man’s nightmare scenario. In the face of death, why wouldn’t there be riots? Why wouldn’t there be killing and theft and rape? If there were no consequences – or if all the consequences were the same – then anything became possible. It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including himself.

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What about you?” Scarlet asked. “You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?”
“Not the fear,” Han said. “I just like being a little smarter than the next guy.”
“That’s all it is?”
“That, and I really hate paying taxes.

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The sex,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us.”
“Well,” she said, “orgasm does release a lot of oxytocin, so I’m probably more fond of you than before.

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That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free.

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Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?

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Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past.

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One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,"Naomi said with a smirk.

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It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.

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It was astounding, Bobbie thought, how quickly humanity could go from What unimaginable intelligence fashioned these soul-wrenching wonders? to Well, since they’re not here, can I have their stuff?

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Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

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The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. 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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