Quotes by James S.A. Corey

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it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

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Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

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

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The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

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If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered sky at the great red spot, close enough to see the...

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His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

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He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

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What have we got?" Ashford said. "Short form." "It's fucking weird, sir," Chan said.

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What makes you such an expert on alien life?” Scarlet asked after a few minutes. “I’ve been all over the galaxy. Seen a lot of stuff,” Han said. “Plus, I have common sense.

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You’re too old for fairy tales,” Baasen said.

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

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Well,” Han said with a sigh, “we’ve gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That’s progress of a sort.

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But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a rebel than he’d ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be...

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

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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...

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Fish and company start to smell after three days.

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Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

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It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do...

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