James S.A. Corey Quotes

You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.

There’s a dignity in consequences.

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it.

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.

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 swirls and eddies of a storm larger than her home world. She'd tasted water thawed from ice as old as the solar system itself. And it was that human dissatisfaction, that human audacity that had put her there.

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