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We're not doing one of those things where you need me to ask you a bunch of questions so you can get comfortable talking about your feelings, are we?" Alex laughed. "That never works." "So let's not do it." On -- James S.a. Corey
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He hadn't been aware he'd felt wrong until he suddenly felt right again. -- James S.a. Corey
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Hooray for bloated Martian defense budgets, -- James S.a. Corey
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We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Charanpal. -- James S.a. Corey
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That Holden is up to something? Have you met that guy? He's never done anything secretly in his life. -- James S.a. Corey
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There's another mess of legal crap just came through from the UN for you." Holden sighed. "Am I supposed to read it?" "Don't see how they can make you," Amos said. "Just thought you'd want to ignore it intentionally." "Thank you. Sort of," Holden -- James S.a. Corey
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So that was the story of who she was. The one who'd been too sensitive. Too weak. -- James S.a. Corey
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Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn't done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can't be good. -- James S.a. Corey
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It wouldn't be the first unfamiliar finger up his ass. -- James S.a. Corey
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When Holden pointed out that the Roci was already capable of accelerating fast enough to kill her crew and asked why they'd need to upgrade her, Amos had replied, "Because this shit is awesome." Holden had just nodded and smiled and paid the bill. Even -- James S.a. Corey
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Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went. -- James S.a. Corey
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Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized. -- James S.a. Corey
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What are they going to do about it?"
"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."
Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was impossible to be intimidating when the person you were staring down was a foot taller than you. -- James S.a. Corey
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The sense of being two men - one bent on desperate measures, the other already in the numb of mourning - felt like the last weeks of his marriage. -- James S.a. Corey
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The best scientific minds of the system were staring at the data with their jaws slack, and the reason no one was panicking yet was that no one could agree on what they should panic about. -- James S.a. Corey
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Couldn't tell which direction the gunfire was coming from. -- James S.a. Corey
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His first sign that things were going wrong was a massive barrage of gunfire that seemed to come from everywhere at once. -- James S.a. Corey
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God save us all from good-looking men. -- James S.a. Corey
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We're little people in big times, yeah? -- James S.a. Corey
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Thank you, Mister Patel," Holden said. "In thanks, you may now have all my stuff. I don't care about any of it anymore." "Including the coffee maker, sir?" "Almost all my stuff. -- James S.a. Corey
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Someone would run a card game or set up a pachinko parlor or start a little protection racket. People would be bribed to do things or not do things. It was what happened when you put people together. -- James S.a. Corey
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A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial. -- James S.a. Corey
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Jesus, Captain, you look like shit. -- James S.a. Corey
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Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas and petty power struggles and opinions on how he should be doing his job better. -- James S.a. Corey
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Strong believer in doing what needs to get done. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was intentional and inhuman. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. Shaking, -- James S.a. Corey
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What are you thinking, Amos?" "Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we're done with the first part." Naomi -- James S.a. Corey
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A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic. -- James S.a. Corey
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Background radiation spoke to Holden in mystic whispers full of dire portents while he waited. Newcomer, it said. Hang around for fourteen billion years or so. See what I've seen. Then all this nonsense won't seem so important. I'll -- James S.a. Corey
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Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion. -- James S.a. Corey
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Diogo and the other OPA irregulars had breached a high-value research station, faced down one of the most powerful and evil corporations in a history of power and evil. And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. -- James S.a. Corey
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The neighborhood was at the friction point between sleazy and respectable. -- James S.a. Corey
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Why should going into a firefight, charging into an enemy station filled with people and automatic systems built to kill you, seem less frightening than talking to people who you shipped with for weeks? -- James S.a. Corey
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She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There -- James S.a. Corey
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She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. -- James S.a. Corey
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Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way? -- James S.a. Corey
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Shit," Amos said. "And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless." "You -- James S.a. Corey
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There are two sides in this, but they aren't inner planets and outer ones. Belters and everyone else. It's not like that. It's the people who want more violence and the ones who want less. And no matter what other variable you sample out of, you'll find some of both. -- James S.a. Corey
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And with all of the enemy's citizens living at the bottom of huge gravity wells, we don't even have to aim particularly well. Einstein was right. We will be fighting the next war with rocks. But the Belt has rocks that will turn the surface of Mars into a molten sea. -- James S.a. Corey
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You're making a mistake, shithead, Avasarala said, and dropped the connection. -- James S.a. Corey
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By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.
So, of course, it came out to meet him. -- James S.a. Corey
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What?" "You're very beautiful," Holden said. "I hope I tell you that often enough." "You do." "Then I hope I don't tell you so often it gets annoying." "You don't," she -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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The Epstein Drive hadn't given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. Three-quarters -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did. -- James S.a. Corey
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I love the period of rotation. Thirty hours. You can get in a full day's work, stay up getting drunk at the saloon, and still get a full night's sleep. I don't know why we didn't think of this back home. -- James S.a. Corey
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That man's asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space. -- James S.a. Corey
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What have we got?" Ashford said. "Short form."
"It's fucking weird, sir," Chan said. -- James S.a. Corey
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Intellectually, he knew he wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice himself or his happiness to save everyone else. But that didn't stop the tiny voice at the back of his head that said, Fuck everyone else, I want my girlfriend back. -- James S.a. Corey
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The only thing she and Tilly had in common was their carbon base. -- James S.a. Corey
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God, save me from temperance," Tilly said. "You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying to beat each other to the bottom of a bottle."
"Now, that's not nice, Mrs Fagan," Father Michel said. "I've never met an Anglican that could keep up with me. -- James S.a. Corey
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Tilly screamed. Anna's shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? She recognized her fixation on this irritation as her own way of avoiding the horror in front of her, but only in a distant and dreamy sort of way. -- James S.a. Corey
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Trashy people puke," Tilly said. "Ladies are unwell. -- James S.a. Corey
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Annie," Tilly said. "If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my husband. -- James S.a. Corey
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But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change. -- James S.a. Corey
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And with the lower docking fees, Eros Station found other ways to soak money from its visitors: Casinos. Brothels. Shooting galleries. Vice in all its commercial forms found a home in Eros, its local economy blooming like a fungus fed by the desires of Belters. -- James S.a. Corey
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And even then, she hadn't wanted to die. She'd just wanted it to be over. To be free of it all. For the pain and guilt to be over. And the feeling of being trapped. She might have been able to stand all the rest of it, but not the sense of being caught. -- James S.a. Corey
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Like everything else humans built for space travel, it was designed to be efficient, not pretty. -- James S.a. Corey
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If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history. -- James S.a. Corey
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Liquor doesn't make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss. -- James S.a. Corey
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Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were. -- James S.a. Corey
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I want the right to outbid anyone else who tries to hire you. No contracts without my counteroffer." Holden held out his hand, and Fred shook it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Mom," Holden said. "Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We're not a different species. -- James S.a. Corey
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There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down. So a week later, she kills her mom. Big laugh. -- James S.a. Corey
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And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? -- James S.a. Corey
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Son of a f**king whore," Avasarala said, loud enough to cut through the background buzz of conversations.
The crowd turned to her. She was looking at her hand terminal.
"What's a whore, Daddy?"
"It's a kind of frost, honey," Prax said. "What's going on? -- James S.a. Corey
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Gah, Prax said, and curled up into a floating fetal ball. -- James S.a. Corey
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Ferns can be very aggressive," Prax said. -- James S.a. Corey
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If I had. If I had done those things, that would have been okay with you?" "Oh, fuck no. I'd have broken your neck and thrown you out the airlock," Amos said, clapping him on the shoulder. "Ah," Prax said, a gentle relief loosening in his chest. "Thank you." "Anytime." The -- James S.a. Corey
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I like the backup plan better," Amos said. "Backup plan?" Prax asked. "The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are." Prax -- James S.a. Corey
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I just said that. Didn't I just say that?" Prax asked. -- James S.a. Corey
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So you're trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?" "Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that. -- James S.a. Corey
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To suddenly be so hurt in so many different places at once left her dazed and with a sort of directionless anger. It wasn't fair that a person could be hurt so much. -- James S.a. Corey
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A cup in her hand that was either strong tea or weak coffee. She nodded toward his desktop monitor. On it, three -- James S.a. Corey
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Anderson Dawes," the pocked man said. "I'm the Ceres liaison for the Outer Planets Alliance. I think we can help each other. May I come in?" Miller -- James S.a. Corey
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Protogen is in a position to take sole possession of not only the first technology of genuinely extraterrestrial origin, but also a prefabricated mechanism for the manipulation of living systems and the first clues as to the nature of the larger - I will call it galactic - biosphere. -- James S.a. Corey
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Jesus," he said. "What scares the OPA? -- James S.a. Corey
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The torches flared and died and flared again. The Rocinante was remade a little, the same way it had been over and over through the years. Little changes adding up over time as the ship moved from what it had been to what it would be next. Just like all the people she carried. "You -- James S.a. Corey
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I don't see anything," Miller said. "What's it look like?"
"The eye of an angry God?" Elvi said.
"Oh," Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. "Yeah, well that's probably it, then. Good work. -- James S.a. Corey
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There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it."
"Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it? -- James S.a. Corey
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And a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. -- James S.a. Corey
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Lopez reached into his pocket, took out a small packet of white lozenges, and popped one into his mouth. He didn't offer one to Holden. Lopez's pupils contracted to tiny points as he sucked the lozenge. Focus drugs. He'd be watching every tic of Holden's face during questioning. Tough to lie to. -- James S.a. Corey
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A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it. -- James S.a. Corey
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I believe there is a dignity in consequences, Captain. I think there's a kind of truth in them, and I try to cultivate a profound respect for truth. -- James S.a. Corey
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The lights were cheap LEDs tinted a false pink that was supposed to flatter the complexion but instead made everyone look like undercooked beef. There were no cabins, only row after row of formed -- James S.a. Corey
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Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way ... -- James S.a. Corey
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I don't understand," Holden said. "If you didn't do this, then who did?"
"See now, that's a good question, on several levels. Depending on what you mean by 'this. -- James S.a. Corey
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They say revenge is empty." "This is my first try at it," Holden said. "Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed. -- James S.a. Corey
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The Mormons had been planning to run the human race's first extrasolar colony from a place that would have been equally at home as an accounting office. It felt anticlimactic. Hello, welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star! Here's your cubicle. -- James S.a. Corey
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What your opponent wants you to think is useful data in figuring out what they think. So get the early draft, okay? -- James S.a. Corey
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The old man was brilliant at looking somber and energetic at the same time. If he hadn't been the executive of the largest governing body in the history of the human race, he'd have made a killing promoting health drinks. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he'd spent running down the wrong road. -- James S.a. Corey
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The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn't needed to destroy humanity. They'd given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they'd leaped on it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Something like that," he said. "Do you attend church?" "Haven't in years," Miller said. "I was a Methodist when I was anything. What flavor are you selling?" The -- James S.a. Corey
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You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I'm not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure. -- James S.a. Corey
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She was grinning like the universe had given her a kiss. -- James S.a. Corey
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No one really appreciated how much of security work was just trying to keep things under control for a few more minutes, giving everyone involved in the crisis a little time to think it all through. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller -- James S.a. Corey
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The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. He liked it that way. -- James S.a. Corey
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Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can't go anywhere. -- James S.a. Corey
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Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die. -- James S.a. Corey
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Too many people with too many agendas, and everyone was worried that the other guy would shoot them in the back. Of all the ways to go and meet the God-like alien whatever-they-were that built the protomolecule, this was the stupidest, the most dangerous, and - for Bull's money - the most human. -- James S.a. Corey
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I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people. -- James S.a. Corey
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You never ask for permission, you just apologize later. -- James S.a. Corey
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Oh, I know. But it's like my eyes are forcing those patterns on stars that aren't really lined up the right way to make them." There was another moment of silence, then Amos said, "That's, like, one of them metaphors, right?" "It is now." "Buy -- James S.a. Corey
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If Fred is showing this to you, Holden, know that your home planet appreciates your service. Also try not to put your dick in this. It's fucked enough already. -- James S.a. Corey
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You ready?" Amos asked. "Does it matter?" "Not a lot. Let's -- James S.a. Corey
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Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and we will glass the whole fucking moon. Do you read me? -- James S.a. Corey
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All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always. -- James S.a. Corey
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The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. Holden's -- James S.a. Corey
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At nearly five hundred meters long, it was the size of a 130-story building. Alex had said it was 250,000 tons dry weight, -- James S.a. Corey
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Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's -- James S.a. Corey
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Amos found what I'm pretty sure was the most expensive hooker I've ever seen. -- James S.a. Corey
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When the lights went out.
It wasn't just the lights. So many things about his physical situation changed all at once that his hindbrain couldn't keep up. It told him to be nauseated just in case he'd been poisoned. It was working with fifty-million-year-old response algorithms. -- James S.a. Corey
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Just do not pull that fucking trigger. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't. You will be personally responsible for the deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it. -- James S.a. Corey
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You ever wondered why I leave as soon as anyone else shows up?" "I'm special?" "Yeah, I wouldn't go that far. -- James S.a. Corey
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You're too old for fairy tales," Baasen said. -- James S.a. Corey
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I care deeply about all the fine details," she said, "only actually, I don't. Sum it up. -- James S.a. Corey
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You crazy," Jianguo said. "No crew in there. They'll jump you." "Yep." "Then why?" "Because," Amos said, standing up and throwing the towel over his shoulder, "I hate waiting." As -- James S.a. Corey
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Shouldn't let go of being educated," he said. "Universe spent a lot of time telling you something. Now you're second-guessing it. Maybe all those other things were getting you ready for this." Something -- James S.a. Corey
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There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you. -- James S.a. Corey
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Miller watched a little piece of the man's idealism die and was sorry that it gave him joy. So -- James S.a. Corey
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The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He'd never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. There -- James S.a. Corey
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Meditating deeply so that she could really, clearly experience being angry and lonesome and hurt and horror-struck never seemed as good as a strong gin and tonic and another hour of work. -- James S.a. Corey
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We're like children," Anna said, pushing herself to her feet and lecturing down at him. "Who burn their hands on a hot stove and then think the solution is to blow up all the stoves. -- James S.a. Corey
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Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing. -- James S.a. Corey
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As soon as we get the place secure, I'll get in touch," Miller said. "Okay, but don't take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I'm going to need help prying Amos out of it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden shot him in the throat. Somewhere in his brain stem, Detective Miller nodded in approval. -- James S.a. Corey
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For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here. -- James S.a. Corey
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You think somebody built those towers and structures and then just left? This whole planet is a murder scene. An empty apartment with warm food on the table and all the clothes still in the closets. This is some Croatoan shit." "The -- James S.a. Corey
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It was the widest concerted attack ever. Hundreds of ships on at least four sides. Dozens of stations, millions of lives. Among the stars, it didn't stand out. -- James S.a. Corey
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There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point. -- James S.a. Corey
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Ferns can be very aggressive -- James S.a. Corey
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After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try? -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull. -- James S.a. Corey
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Miller caught the red-and-green border that meant either a priority message or an early Christmas card. -- James S.a. Corey
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Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful. -- James S.a. Corey
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And I understand you've got a few after-market add-ons - " "Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful. The -- James S.a. Corey
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Yeah," Chris said. "I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I'm a hero. -- James S.a. Corey
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Amos took a high-caliber automatic that fired self-propelled rounds, recoilless and designed for use in zero g. Old-fashioned slug throwers were more reliable, but in null gravity they were also maneuvering thrusters. -- James S.a. Corey
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So there was this unlicensed brothel down in sector 18. We went thinking we'd be hauling fifteen, twenty people in. More, maybe. Got there, and the place was stripped to the stone, -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing that'll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker. Alex, -- James S.a. Corey
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Your fancy alien train is broken?"
"My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running."
"You are a sad, bitter little man. -- James S.a. Corey
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Things changed, and they didn't change back. But sometimes they got better. -- James S.a. Corey
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The Nazis aren't from space. They are right here among us. They are the beasts of our worst nature. -- James S.a. Corey
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Yes, ma'am," Soren said. "But I was wondering whether you should alert the security service about your decision to clear the sergeant. They do like to be in the loop on that kind of thing." "Meow meow cry meow meow," Avasarala said. "That's all I heard you say." "Yes, ma'am," Soren said. Bobbie -- James S.a. Corey
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I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all go away.'
'It doesn't go away. Ever. But you get better at it.'
'At what?'
'At being haunted,' Avasarala said. -- James S.a. Corey
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Point of clarification," Alex said, raising his hand. "We have an apocalypse comin'? Was that a thing we knew about?" "Venus," Avasarala said. "Oh. That apocalypse," Alex said, lowering his hand. "Right. -- James S.a. Corey
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You fucked your prisoner?" Avasarala said, her expression evenly divided between amusement and disgust. "Nah," Amos said. "I don't tend to do that with people I like. -- James S.a. Corey
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I am declaring this vessel in violation of laws and standards," Avasarala said. "Cotyar, you're witness to that." "As you say, ma'am." "All right, then. Bobbie. Get me control of this fucking ship. -- James S.a. Corey
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What happened?" she asked.
"The landing pad blew up."
"Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?"
"No. No, they really don't. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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But, Bobbie? Really, really don't die out there." "No one lives forever, sir," Bobbie said, "but as long as it doesn't compromise the mission, I'll try to live through it." "Thanks. -- James S.a. Corey
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Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch. -- James S.a. Corey
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All posthuman meant, literally speaking, was what you were when you weren't human anymore. -- James S.a. Corey
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Chief Engineer Naomi Nagata towered over him. She stood almost two full meters tall, her mop of curly hair tied back into a black tail, her expression halfway between amusement and annoyance. -- James S.a. Corey
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Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden -- James S.a. Corey
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Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don't understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he'll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he'd say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It's what he is. -- James S.a. Corey
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It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory. -- James S.a. Corey
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Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. "Is he mad at me?" "Sweetie," Amos said, clapping her on the back, "that just means you're not an asshole. -- James S.a. Corey
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Maybe it was a cumulative process, like smoking cigarettes. One didn't do much. Five didn't do much more. Every emotion he'd shut down, every human contact he'd spurned, every love and friendship and moment of compassion from which he'd turned had taken him a degree away from himself. -- James S.a. Corey
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Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp -- James S.a. Corey
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When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the same sport. -- James S.a. Corey
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She sat at the dining table, a steaming mug of tea in front of her, a distant look in her eyes. Holden couldn't tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar. -- James S.a. Corey
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Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are. -- James S.a. Corey
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I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it's all an enemy plot, at least there's someone calling the shots. -- James S.a. Corey
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Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new. -- James S.a. Corey
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The man he'd once been wasn't a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had. -- James S.a. Corey
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To beat a man - even to beat a man to death - was at least proof that you took him seriously as a man. -- James S.a. Corey
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They'd made the bricks from the local earth, processed through some of the mining equipment and fired in a kiln powered by combustion. It could only have been more primitive if they'd dug a cave and painted bison on the walls. -- James S.a. Corey
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Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism. -- James S.a. Corey
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You look old, Fred." "I feel old. But it's better than the alternative. -- James S.a. Corey
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War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything? -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm not embarrassed," Han said to the back of her head. "I am a very good-looking man."
"Indeed you are, sir," the droid replied. -- James S.a. Corey
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Alex's experience of real family - of blood relations - was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Holden -- James S.a. Corey
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When the crisis comes, we all pull together naturally. It's easy then. It's when things drag on too long that we have to make the effort. We need to make sure everyone sees we're all in this together. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden was imagining what several hundred rounds of Teflon-coated tungsten steel going five thousand meters per second would do to human bodies when Alex threw down the throttle and a roomful of elephants swan dived onto his chest. -- James S.a. Corey
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The sunset was a massive canvas of gold and orange, green and rose, gray and indigo and blue. It reminded him of beaches on the North American west coast, except there were no vendors clogging the place and no advertising drones muttering about the joys of commerce. -- James S.a. Corey
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Epithets like that are an attempt to dehumanize a group so that you won't feel as bad about killing them. -- James S.a. Corey
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I meant fact," Holden went on as if he hadn't heard Alex at all. "I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,Naomi said with a smirk. -- James S.a. Corey
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No one'll see us coming," Han said. "And everyone dies sometime."
"Not comforting."
"The alternative is we go spend a bunch of time waiting for you to come up with some other plan that doesn't work. -- James S.a. Corey
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Don't think about the odds," Bobbie said. "Think about the stakes. Think how much we lose if we take the risk and it goes wrong. -- James S.a. Corey
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To be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. He's always been squeamish about women, and no one likes a Peeping Tom, even if he is prime minister. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stars are better off without us. -- James S.a. Corey
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Never heard of 'em."
"Yeah, you have, but context is everything, ain't it? -- James S.a. Corey
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His enthusiasm was exhausting and charming at the same time. He wanted to impress her, so she resolved to be impressed. It was a small enough thing to give someone. -- James S.a. Corey
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Drinking coffee was one of the activities that didn't make the transition to microgravity well, but at half a g, it was fine. -- James S.a. Corey
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Around them, the hotel restaurant was busy. Last shift's prostitutes mixed with the next shift's tourists and businessmen at the cheap pink-lit buffet. -- James S.a. Corey
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He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime. -- James S.a. Corey
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The millions of skin-bound complications of salt water and minerals that were human bodies scattered throughout the Belt still needed food and air and clean water, energy and shelter. -- James S.a. Corey
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Whenever her focus slipped, it slipped onto James Holden. The sound of his voice, his despairing and undaunted laughter, the shape of his ass. He haunted her. -- James S.a. Corey
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You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak. Miller -- James S.a. Corey
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The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks - sometimes months - spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small, separate universe. -- James S.a. Corey
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He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with. -- James S.a. Corey
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Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore. -- James S.a. Corey
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New Terrans, she supposed. Unless the squatters' naming schema won out. Then ... what? Ilusians? Illusions? It was a stupid fucking name. -- James S.a. Corey
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This kind of thing requires secrecy to function, so exposing all the secrets hurts them in the end. It's the only way this really, permanently stops. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stop busting my balls, Soren. I'm out of tea. -- James S.a. Corey
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No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good. -- James S.a. Corey
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Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation. -- James S.a. Corey
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Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military version of the fail-safe is? Drop the magnetic bottle in the reactor? Turn us into a supernova? -- James S.a. Corey
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As long as you always see the next step, you can walk the whole way." She -- James S.a. Corey
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Something out there has a comm array that'll put a dot the size of your anus on us from over three AU away," Alex said. "Okay, wow, that's impressive. What is our anus-sized dot saying?" Holden asked. -- James S.a. Corey
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She felt like a world-class musician standing before a full auditorium and handed a kazoo. -- James S.a. Corey
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The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous. -- James S.a. Corey
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There were children playing on the commons. He thought of them as children, though he remembered thinking of himself as an adult at that age. Fifteen, sixteen years old. -- James S.a. Corey
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I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don't understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That's probably safe to play with, right? -- James S.a. Corey
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A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go. -- James S.a. Corey
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Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma. -- James S.a. Corey
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Structures are never monolithic. -- James S.a. Corey
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Partners, she said, and fired two rounds into his head. -- James S.a. Corey
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That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. -- James S.a. Corey
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No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself. -- James S.a. Corey
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For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eyeballs. -- James S.a. Corey
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Russian," she replied with a nod. "Born in Kimry. But a Muscovite for most of my adult life. North American?" "Montana. Farming collective." "I hear Montana is nice. -- James S.a. Corey
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You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I'll fight you now." Cortez -- James S.a. Corey
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The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armour, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives.
"What," Holden said, "is all this?"
"You said to gear up for the drop."
"I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. Miller's -- James S.a. Corey
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You know," Naomi said, "if you're looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you're on wrong side. -- James S.a. Corey
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The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors. -- James S.a. Corey
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Her life had been squandered, and whether she said it in pentameter or not didn't seem to matter much. -- James S.a. Corey
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When you got a nail to drive, use the fucking hammer. -- James S.a. Corey
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Any government was going to have traffic laws. Before the Emperor, the Republic had enforced its edicts at the laser-sharp edge of a Jedi's lightsaber. It was the way the universe worked. -- James S.a. Corey
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GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP. -- James S.a. Corey
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People always whispered when they were hiding. Wrapped in a space suit and surrounded by vacuum, Gomez could have been lighting fireworks inside his armor and no one would have heard it, but he whispered. -- James S.a. Corey
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The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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I've watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn't quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice. -- James S.a. Corey
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Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought. -- James S.a. Corey
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So are you conscious?" The alien robot - the skin the Miller construct was using - shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. "Don't know. Seems like I'm acing my Turing test, though. -- James S.a. Corey
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Once is never. Twice is always. -- James S.a. Corey
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The second corpse sat up and then stood, clutching her belly. A man stepped into the frame, a gun in his hand, healing her by sucking the bullet from her guts. They argued, grew calm, parted peaceably. -- James S.a. Corey
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Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general. -- James S.a. Corey
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The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending. -- James S.a. Corey
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If we accept the premise that we're always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses ... and tell a good story. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.
He felt he now had the counterargument. -- James S.a. Corey
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He'd never been to military pilot school, but he knew that years of training had compartmentalized Alex's brain into two halves: piloting problems and, secondarily, everything else. -- James S.a. Corey
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and no one had so far been able to offer any scientific conclusions more compelling than Hmm. Weird. -- James S.a. Corey
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The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air. -- James S.a. Corey
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The elegance and functionality of the structure lay out before him, as beautiful and simple and effective as a leaf or a root cluster. To have something so much like the fruits of evolution, but designed by human minds, was -- James S.a. Corey
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Well, you've got a full load of torpedoes and bullets, three Martian warships trailing you, one angry old lady in tea withdrawal, and a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. What do you do? -- James S.a. Corey
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The ship name. It's unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone's kid or the girl they left behind after that magical weekend on Titan, I'm going to start fining people for general lack of creativity." Holden -- James S.a. Corey
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She wondered what she would do or say if someone walked through the archway, but it was night, and the nights here were very long. There was room in them. -- James S.a. Corey
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She was on their bed, her knees curled up toward her chest, her eyes closed, her hair spilling over the gel. She snored a little, soft animal sounds of peace and contentment. -- James S.a. Corey
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They were civilians. Killing them was, at the very least, bad form. But then Julie whispered in the back of his mind, No one here is innocent, and he had to agree. -- James S.a. Corey
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His words were full of hope and threat.
Like the stars. -- James S.a. Corey
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If you start feeling wonderful and powerful and like you've seen the face of God, you're having a euphoric attack. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life. -- James S.a. Corey
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Naomi coughed. It was wet, painful sound, but the medical bay didn't seem concerned. The machine had a shitty bedside manner. -- James S.a. Corey
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The messages he watched and sent out were a kind of prayer for him, though he wouldn't have said it that way. Something that brought peace and the illusion that what they were caught up in wasn't so massively bigger than their own individual wills and hopes and intentions. -- James S.a. Corey
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The tube station that arrived from the port had six wide doors, which emptied to the casino floor. Miller accepted a drink from a tired-looking woman in a G-string and bared breasts and found a screen to stand at that afforded him a view of all six doors. -- James S.a. Corey
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and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. -- James S.a. Corey
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Mark Watney, out of Mars. -- James S.a. Corey
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In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The -- James S.a. Corey
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My name is James Holden," he said, "and my ship, the Canterbury, was just destroyed by a warship with stealth technology and what appear to be parts stamped with Martian navy serial numbers. Data stream to follow. -- James S.a. Corey
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If they had to transport black market human organs or drugs or sexbots or whatever was in those crates, he'd do it. Because he was scared. -- James S.a. Corey
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Amusement and half pleasure, on their faces. Miller signed in and crawled through the awkward Ojino-Gouch-style airlock, seventy years out of date and hardly larger than -- James S.a. Corey
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Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away so they can get on with their research. -- James S.a. Corey
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In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful. -- James S.a. Corey
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The mech hadn't been designed for violence, but it was suited for it. That made her and it the same. -- James S.a. Corey
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Societies around the system. With every letter -- James S.a. Corey
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But Basia had come to view power as a precious and irreplaceable resource. Not something he'd ever needed to do in the age of readily available fusion. -- James S.a. Corey
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If all that was possible, everything was. -- James S.a. Corey
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He wore his age like a statement that fighting the ravages of time and mortality was beneath his notice. -- James S.a. Corey
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Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. -- James S.a. Corey
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The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round. -- James S.a. Corey
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She'd been attacked. Just after she came to the Belt. She was seeing that it didn't happen twice."
"Attacked," Miller said, parsing the man's tone of voice. "Raped?"
"I didn't ask. -- James S.a. Corey
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I didn't switch sides. I stopped playing. -- James S.a. Corey
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He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit. -- James S.a. Corey
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The joke was that Ceres didn't have laws - it had police. -- James S.a. Corey
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Mr. Dowd," Miller said. "What I am about to do to you is literally the only bright spot in my day. If you could see your way clear to resisting arrest, I'd really appreciate it." "Harry? -- James S.a. Corey
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We both know that killing someone doesn't make you admirable. I'm not about to forget this. I just hope you have enough soul left that what you've done still bothers you." The recording ended, and Bull smiled at the blank screen wearily. "Every time," he told the hand terminal. "And next time too. -- James S.a. Corey
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Johnson and I sent Holden to mediate because he was the perfect person to show what a clusterfuck it was out there. How ugly it could be. -- James S.a. Corey
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Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi -- James S.a. Corey
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Basia floated next to the gunner's seat watching the hateful math spool out across the screen. She -- James S.a. Corey
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I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle. The bridge went quiet. -- James S.a. Corey
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I found a big crate with the letters MAP on the side. According to the manifest, it stands for 'Mobile Assault Package.' Apparently navy-speak for a big box of guns, -- James S.a. Corey
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There were two sides fighting - that was true enough - but they weren't the inner planets versus the Belters. They were the people who thought it was a good idea to kill people who looked or acted differently against the people who didn't. -- James S.a. Corey
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His brows knotted just a bit. He knew that she knew. Because of course he did. Players at their level didn't deceive each other. They won even though their opponents knew exactly what was happening. Just like he was winning against her right now. -- James S.a. Corey
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Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever. -- James S.a. Corey
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There aren't any new starts," Bobbie said. "All the new ones pack the old ones along with them. If we ever really started fresh, it'd mean not having a history anymore. I don't know how to do that. -- James S.a. Corey
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Time took her strength but it gave her power in exchange. It was a fair trade. She -- James S.a. Corey
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Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and threats were good too. -- James S.a. Corey
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You'll have something to ride on that doesn't make your cock look as small as that gaudy turd. -- James S.a. Corey
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Saying 'no problem' is a sure sign that everything is about to go terribly wrong," Han said. -- James S.a. Corey
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Outside, the city glowed, the violence and bustle made calm and beautiful by even such a small distance. The wail of the sirens and angry blat of the security alerts became a kind of music there, transformed by the mystical act of passing above waves. -- James S.a. Corey
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The dog-faced, small-cocked, hypocrite bastard son of a weasel and a whore bowed and escorted his wife from the house. -- James S.a. Corey
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Naomi shrugged with her hands, then started pulling her hair behind her head and tying it up with a red elastic band. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden punched the comm system on the wall. "Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter Rocinante." "What -- James S.a. Corey
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Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good. -- James S.a. Corey
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She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia. -- James S.a. Corey
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The best find hadn't been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even -- James S.a. Corey
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A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. -- James S.a. Corey
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Afterward he collapsed onto the deck and gave in to the shakes. Naomi climbed into her couch and sobbed. It was the first time Holden had ever seen her cry. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy. -- James S.a. Corey
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His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate. -- James S.a. Corey
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This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise. -- James S.a. Corey
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Have you ever known anyone this wealthy to go to jail? Or even be prosecuted? This guy could probably walk in here and shoot you in the face on a live newsfeed and get away with it. -- James S.a. Corey
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I'll go be a revolutionary for a while, I guess." "Earthman's -- James S.a. Corey
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High-functioning sociopaths, -- James S.a. Corey
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I think we need to leave now," Holden said, fear making the words come fast. "Like now now. Not later now. -- James S.a. Corey
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But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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Five hours later, the government of Ceres collapsed. -- James S.a. Corey
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Since this used to be a Martian ship, I thought maybe you'd have reloads that would fit our racks." "Sure," Captain Tseng said without a moment's hesitation. "I'll have the destroyer Sally Ride pull alongside for munitions transfer. -- James S.a. Corey
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Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description. -- James S.a. Corey
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In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. -- James S.a. Corey
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Things change, Red," Amos said, "you let us know. Because I'll still be happy to kill the shit out of her. -- James S.a. Corey
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Hey," she said. "Hey." "So I have a thing." "Is it a thing I can fix?" Holden asked. "Point me at the thing. -- James S.a. Corey
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What?" Holden said, a brief image of the asteroid sneaking up like a cartoon villain on the two circling warships popping into his head. "Yeah, -- James S.a. Corey
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It's a war. Wars aren't like that." "Aren't like what?" Roberts said. "Aren't like stories about wars," Vandercaust answered solemnly. "Stories about wars come after. -- James S.a. Corey
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We don't have permission to kill him," Bull said. "A finger slips, think we can get forgiveness?" "Probably. -- James S.a. Corey
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No fame and glory for you, Cortez. Montezuma wasn't impressed by your fire stick this time." "Everything -- James S.a. Corey
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First mutiny?" Naomi said.
"Yeah. It's not really something I do."
"It gets easier. -- James S.a. Corey
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Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp. -- James S.a. Corey
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Some things were secret even after you told them. -- James S.a. Corey
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That's your plan?" Holden said, incredulity in his voice. "Go collect some police bribes?" Across the restaurant, a prostitute in a red nightgown yawned prodigiously; the john across the table from her frowned. -- James S.a. Corey
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The detective had been watching the video of Julie Mao's fight with her captors over and over again while they'd waited on Naomi and Amos to finish their work. It gave Holden the disquieting feeling that Miller was storing the footage in his head. Fuel for something he planned to do later. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden considered ordering her to button up her helmet, then shrugged. She was old enough to decide for herself the relative risks and rewards of eating during a battle. -- James S.a. Corey
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There is no review process, Doc. This isn't a government thing. Hell, it's not even a business. It's just us monkeys flying fast and tryin' t keep our butts out of the engine plume. -- James S.a. Corey
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This is as good as it gets. Can't expect everyone to be on the same page. We're still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion. -- James S.a. Corey
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Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him. -- James S.a. Corey
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She tried to scream once, but with significant portions of her larynx already compromised, what she managed was more of a powerful, wet exhalation. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed. -- James S.a. Corey
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I don't believe war ever does. It's a madness that's in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides." "Sounds like a disease." "The herpes simplex of the species? -- James S.a. Corey
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If you wanted kids, I hope you have some sperm in a bank someplace, because all your little soldiers have two heads now. Miller -- James S.a. Corey
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And somehow, that changed everything about sex. The movements might all be the same, but the desire to communicate affection rather than demonstrate prowess changed what everything meant. -- James S.a. Corey
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Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were. -- James S.a. Corey
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Shift in language is shift in consciousness, yeah," Josep -- James S.a. Corey
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He almost blacks out again, but he's not sure if it's the stroke or the thrust gravity. He's pretty sure driving blood pressure higher while having a stroke is considered poor form. -- James S.a. Corey
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Hell, as long as he was fantasizing, he threw in Naomi walking over to his hammock with a couple of fruity-looking drinks in her hands. She ruined it by talking. "This is our stop," she said. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless. -- James S.a. Corey
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People. No matter where he went, no matter what he did, it was all still people. Kelsey -- James S.a. Corey
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It was a small place with bulbs of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and tea all set with temperature controls in the nipple, so the uniformly tepid drinks could come out anywhere from almost boiling to just this side of ice. The -- James S.a. Corey
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Some things stayed secrets even when you told them. -- James S.a. Corey
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Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That -- James S.a. Corey
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I can't fight pirates without coffee. -- James S.a. Corey
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His smile was curious and as serene as a well-fed predator. -- James S.a. Corey
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Her legs were gone, lost in the tangle of dark alien webs; she reminded Miller of a mermaid who had traded her fins for a space station. Her eyes were closed, but he could see them shifting and dancing under the lids. And she was breathing. -- James S.a. Corey
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You're the predator right up until you're prey. -- James S.a. Corey
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Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia." He -- James S.a. Corey
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You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way. -- James S.a. Corey
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My love is a pure love," Alex said with a grin. "I wouldn't sully it by actually, you know, doin' anything about it." "The kind poets write about, then. -- James S.a. Corey
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Han had been in a thousand places like it, all across the galaxy. Some had been as large as star systems, others as small as a back room in a cantina. They were the niches of the universe ... They were violent places, and they were joyful, and they didn't last. -- James S.a. Corey
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Really?" Ip said, leaning forward. Her knee pressed against Alex's in a way that was absolutely innocent. Unless it wasn't, in which case it absolutely wasn't. "Never -- James S.a. Corey
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You're in charge now. Act like it. "Blowing -- James S.a. Corey
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What are you going to do?" "The same thing as always. Try to keep civilization from blowing up while the children are in it. -- James S.a. Corey
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The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers. -- James S.a. Corey
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Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired. -- James S.a. Corey
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So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?"
"An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money," Han said. "After that, it was just bad luck. -- James S.a. Corey
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Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands. -- James S.a. Corey
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He'd gotten a botany internship thinking that he could use it to grow illicit, untaxed marijuana only to discover that every third botany intern had come in with the same plan. -- James S.a. Corey
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She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face.
"Seriously. Now?" she said. "We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is 'Ooh, boobies! -- James S.a. Corey
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Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene. -- James S.a. Corey
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When we go, go fast. Stop for nothing. Maximum aggression wins the day here. -- James S.a. Corey
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And no offense, but it does smell like a squirrel crawled up your ass and died there. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing was normal yet, and so nothing was strange. -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.
She shrugged.
'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said ... -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do. -- James S.a. Corey
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He is, however," Amos continued, "keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor."
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. "So not too generous, then."
"Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c. -- James S.a. Corey
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Yes, you're in charge. That makes me XO, and it's the XO's job to tell the captain when he's being an idiot. You're being an idiot, sir. -- James S.a. Corey
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Cap," Amos said with a grin. "Anything that kills me has already killed everyone else. I was born to be the last man standing. You can count on it." The -- James S.a. Corey
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Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel. -- James S.a. Corey
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That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter. -- James S.a. Corey
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Sure, humans had invaded an extra-dimensional space with wormholes to points scattered across the galaxy, but they'd remembered to bring ferns. -- James S.a. Corey
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Great men, they're not like you or me. They have other needs. Other rhythms. It's what sets them apart. But sometimes they go so far into the void we lose sight of them. They lose sight of us. -- James S.a. Corey
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Soren's smirk was of the psychic variety; his face didn't change at all. -- James S.a. Corey
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Anyone can kill a planet from orbit," Holden replied. "You don't even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock. That thing out there could kill ... Shit. Anything. -- James S.a. Corey
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Null g always made him think of drowned people. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn't set policy ... -- James S.a. Corey
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Wars aren't like that." "Aren't like what?" Roberts said. "Aren't like stories about wars," Vandercaust -- James S.a. Corey
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First off, get your shit together. Panic doesn't help. It never helps. Deep breaths, figure this out, make the right moves. Fear is the mind-killer. Ha. Geek. -- James S.a. Corey
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There was justice to be had. He just couldn't afford it. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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Boarding a ship was one of the riskiest maneuvers in naval combat. It was basically a race between the boarders rushing to the engine room and the collective will of those who had their fingers on the self-destruct button. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was strange how a person could be so vitally important in your life, and yet you had nothing to say to them when they weren't sharing the same air. -- James S.a. Corey
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They could address everything else and still not solve the problem. He was always proud of her when she said that. A liberal arts background was a hard thing to overcome, but she was doing great. -- James S.a. Corey
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Fayez was a good scientist and a friend, but his habit of making fun of everything and derailing anything serious for the sake of humor also made him less useful than he should have been. -- James S.a. Corey
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That's bullshit. There are always more than two sides. Pretending it's only one or else the other is what let that sonofabitch carry so much weight in the OPA for as long as he did." "He -- James S.a. Corey
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A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper. -- James S.a. Corey
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She'd grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy. -- James S.a. Corey
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History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster, -- James S.a. Corey
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No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work. -- James S.a. Corey
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Naomi had left her hair down, and it hid her face from him. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was shocking to realize how much of investigation was just brute-force solutions. -- James S.a. Corey
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How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades. -- James S.a. Corey
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Even on Earth, there were people with money, and then there were people with money. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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We're back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something. -- James S.a. Corey
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There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong. -- James S.a. Corey
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Amazing how much we've managed to do, considering how we're doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene. -- James S.a. Corey
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He saw his coming death, and wasn't afraid of it anymore. He'd miss all the good stuff to follow, but he'd help make it happen. And a very good person loved him. It was more than most people got in a lifetime. -- James S.a. Corey
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Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter _Rocinante_.'
'What does that name even mean?' ...
'It means we need to go find some windmills -- James S.a. Corey
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The structure echoed the greatest cathedrals of Earth and Mars, rising up through empty air and giving both thrust-gravity stability and glory to God. -- James S.a. Corey
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You live in your own world, dear one." "I do," Arjun agreed, running his thumb across the hand terminal's screen. He looked up. "You don't mind, do you?" "I love you for it. Stay -- James S.a. Corey
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Mentally filed the thought under horrifically inappropriate given the circumstances. -- James S.a. Corey
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This is deep. Drowning deep. And you know what they say about going in after a drowning man, right? Sematimba -- James S.a. Corey
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By not elaborating, he'd sort of told the truth. The fact was weirdly disturbing. -- James S.a. Corey
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When you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. The -- James S.a. Corey
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Because when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm going to Tycho Station. There's someone there I ... trust." "Trust?" "Don't actively distrust." "Naomi think it's the right thing?" "I don't know. I didn't ask her. But I think so." "Close enough," Miller said. -- James S.a. Corey
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Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull's-eye smaller than a mosquito's asshole. -- James S.a. Corey
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Figure two-, three-hundred-kilometer-an-hour winds, lightning, torrential rains. You're far enough inland to avoid the three-kilometer-high tsunami." "Basic wrath of God package, minus drowning, -- James S.a. Corey
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We don't want to get in a gunfight," Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. "Yeah," Amos said. "But if we're in one anyway, it'll be nice to have guns. -- James S.a. Corey
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Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it. -- James S.a. Corey
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It takes something to stand out a little, and you can't swing a dead cat on Ganymede without hitting five botany PhDs. -- James S.a. Corey
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the idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion. -- James S.a. Corey
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Downtime's easier to enjoy when I know it'll end. -- James S.a. Corey
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Singh in computational biology held forth on her theory of the protomolecule as a Guzman-style quantum computer one night over dinner, and when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap. -- James S.a. Corey
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Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here. -- James S.a. Corey
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What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?" Amos said. "Give 'em a break. It's their first. -- James S.a. Corey
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Martian Congressional Republic Navy. -- James S.a. Corey
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I could kill you with my hands, Marcus thought, and it was enough to evoke the smile that etiquette called for. -- James S.a. Corey
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Miller slapped the magazine back into his gun and chambered a round. "I'm guessing there's a lot more people need to be shot before this is over," he -- James S.a. Corey
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You've flown with us for twenty-five years, you like us, you've learned the patois. I bet you can order a beer and a hooker on any station in the Belt. -- James S.a. Corey
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People want Inaros to be a hero, and so what he does, they interpret as heroism." "Even -- James S.a. Corey
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Don't," Naomi said, letting him go, "pull your gun on anyone." "They have guns." "Guns plural. You have gun singular, which is why you will keep yours in your holster, or you'll do this by yourself." That's -- James S.a. Corey
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What are you doing?" asked Naomi from behind him, not from his helmet speakers. She was standing there with her helmet off. Sweat plastered her thick black hair to her head and neck. -- James S.a. Corey
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Wait!" she said. "What decompression did you use? My suit is an older model. It uses the version 5.1 video compression. Tell the tech that, and have them try it again. -- James S.a. Corey
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His ability to appear to be listening lent him an air of gravity without the inconvenience of an opinion of his own. -- James S.a. Corey
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Reputation never has very much to do with reality. -- James S.a. Corey
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What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies. -- James S.a. Corey
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It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. -- James S.a. Corey
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Get killed when I'm not babysitting, Lieutenant Kelly barked. They -- James S.a. Corey
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Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V. -- James S.a. Corey
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I always thought that if you gave people all the information, they'd do the right thing, you know? Not always, maybe, but usually. More often than when they chose to do the wrong thing anyway. -- James S.a. Corey
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He kind of wished he had a hat. -- James S.a. Corey
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If you fuck with him after this, I will end every piece of you. -- James S.a. Corey
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He hadn't done anything wrong, but the sense of being threatened and the experience of guilt were so closely related that it was hard to feel one without the other. When -- James S.a. Corey
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Doesn't take much before we have to compromise ourselves, does it?" "Get born," Michio said, pulling -- James S.a. Corey
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the lizard living at the base of her spine -- James S.a. Corey
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Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action, -- James S.a. Corey
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palpable. Havelock shifted slightly, pushing himself higher in -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm saying let's go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt. -- James S.a. Corey
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The last thing that made sense was to sit around, ogling girls in the park and -- James S.a. Corey
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Get your nuts in your palms and head forward, boys. -- James S.a. Corey
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He was a professional doing an unpleasant job. -- James S.a. Corey
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Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other. -- James S.a. Corey
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There's a dignity in consequences. -- James S.a. Corey
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You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low." The -- James S.a. Corey
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He would live to see humanity's spread to the stars. -- James S.a. Corey
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There was a scuffle, and it got out of hand. Dawes, tell me you've never had something like it." "I've never had something like it," Dawes -- James S.a. Corey
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We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later it's like nothing ever happened -- James S.a. Corey
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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? -- James S.a. Corey
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War without end. Well, -- James S.a. Corey
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He found an electronics store and a teahouse and what on closer inspection turned out to be a very expensive brothel. -- James S.a. Corey
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Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight." The -- James S.a. Corey
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Naomi shook her head, blowing an exasperated raspberry at him. Her dark hair fell across her face -- James S.a. Corey
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He was covered in blood. He was pretty sure it was all Butch's, but not a hundred percent. Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, he missed things like getting shot. He -- James S.a. Corey
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The pillow mashed into her abdomen like a ten-kilo sandbag, filling her mouth with the taste of stomach acid. -- James S.a. Corey
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Good, because I don't use sex as a weapon," Bobbie said. "I use weapons as weapons. -- James S.a. Corey
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They don't hate us," Bobbie said, her voice tired. "They're afraid of us." "Then why do they act like they hate us?" David's father said with something like triumph. "Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go." David's -- James S.a. Corey
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Bobbie kept talking. "Seriously. Get me a gun, I'm a soldier. Get that suit for me, I'm a superhero. -- James S.a. Corey
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Did he kill anyone?" Erich asked. When neither guard answered, he said, "Then he's still being polite. -- James S.a. Corey
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I can get you some stimulants if you'd like, but there's no coffee." "Right," Holden said. "No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet. Show me how to make everyone better. -- James S.a. Corey
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Taking the things that other people thought they deserved to keep was dangerous work. -- James S.a. Corey
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The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn't know which one. -- James S.a. Corey
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If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too. -- James S.a. Corey
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You're a tough guy, but I'm a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse. -- James S.a. Corey
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This is your house...If they don't respect you here, they won't respect you anywhere. -- James S.a. Corey
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Bull had been around charisma before. The sense that some people had of moving through their lives in a cloud of likability or power. -- James S.a. Corey
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and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust. -- James S.a. Corey
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epicanthic fold. -- James S.a. Corey
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He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other. -- James S.a. Corey
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For a moment there, he'd had a vision of the two of them staggering back to the room together, then falling into bed. He'd have hated himself in the morning for taking advantage, but he'd still have done it. -- James S.a. Corey
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I'm an engineer," Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. "Did eight years on Tycho Station! I'm not going to get used like a fucking technician. -- James S.a. Corey
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Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time. -- James S.a. Corey
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Boy, everybody is just a fucking pile of fun right now, Amos said loudly. -- James S.a. Corey
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Her eyes were sad and playful. He'd thought for so long that it was her soul and not just an accident of physiology that gave her that look of fettered joy. He'd been wrong. -- James S.a. Corey
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Those kids? They're illegal, but they don't just vanish, not -- James S.a. Corey
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They build stations inside of rocks for a reason," Naomi said. "Not so easy to force radiation through this many meters of rock." "I -- James S.a. Corey
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He had given himself permission to be afraid. It made all the difference. -- James S.a. Corey
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Maybe he should have rallied, risen to the occasion like the rest of them. The truth was the thought made him tired. Shaddid -- James S.a. Corey
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If the medical bay could have raised its eyebrows and made judgmental little tsk-tsk sounds, it would have. Instead, -- James S.a. Corey
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An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was. And -- James S.a. Corey
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We're all traitors now." "Ha!" the old lady said. "Only if we lose. -- James S.a. Corey
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He didn't think about raising his assault weapon; it was just there, coughing out return fire like an extension of his will. -- James S.a. Corey
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The man starts wars all the fucking time, only this time, when I needed a little conflict? Now he's the fucking peacemaker. -- James S.a. Corey
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It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos -- James S.a. Corey
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He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time. -- James S.a. Corey
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You know what I hate about you?" "My hat?" "That too," Holden said. "But mostly it's that I hate everything you say, but you're not always wrong. -- James S.a. Corey
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Do you believe in the concept of forgiveness? In the possibility of redemption? In the value of every human life, no matter how tainted or corrupted?" "Fuck no," Bull said. "I think it is entirely possible to go so far into the red you can't ever balance the books." "Sounds -- James S.a. Corey
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If the woman still had a soul, it had been pressed thin enough to see through. -- James S.a. Corey
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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 a bad habit. -- James S.a. Corey
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All beautiful things should have just a little sorrow about them. Made them seem real. -- James S.a. Corey
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Captain," Amos said with mock surprise. "Have you actually learned from your past? Is this a new thing you do now? -- James S.a. Corey
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Now you're asking me to explain microwaves to a monkey. -- James S.a. Corey
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Hopefully a preacher didn't need anyone murdered. -- James S.a. Corey
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His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's probably full of vomit zombies," Holden finally said. "Want to go see?" said Miller. "Oh yeah," Holden said. -- James S.a. Corey
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What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?" "But -- James S.a. Corey
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It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to do the right thing. He didn't know any other way to play it. Or -- James S.a. Corey
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Right," Holden said. "No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet. -- James S.a. Corey
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He's done what he said he'd do." She could feel the gentle provocation in his words, and it was what she needed. "He's done what he says he said. -- James S.a. Corey
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If you don't have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Basic problem solving. If you don't have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it. She'd -- James S.a. Corey
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It didn't blow up last time," Han said. "Maybe it won't blow up this time, either. -- James S.a. Corey
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She was going to see a world in the aftermath of utter disaster, but she would still see it. And the state of nature was always recovering from the last disaster. "Stop, -- James S.a. Corey
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It's weird as tits on a bishop, but who knows if it means anything? They're -- James S.a. Corey
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You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks. -- James S.a. Corey
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Why do I put up with your shit?" "Because," Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, "I'm the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running. -- James S.a. Corey
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My old partner was there. He got off too. Then he went back later. When it hit Venus. -- James S.a. Corey
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We're not making any official statements, especially when James Holden's in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend. -- James S.a. Corey
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If the last few weeks had taught Han anything, it was that he didn't belong in the civilised part of her world. His place was in the bowels of the Falcon, or the pilot's seat. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing better in the world than getting a job the day after your ass gets canned. -- James S.a. Corey
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Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers. -- James S.a. Corey
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Black hair draped down the side of her face. -- James S.a. Corey
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How you spend your day is how you spend your life, -- James S.a. Corey
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Fuck the Inners, and fuck their magic Jell-O ... Just wearing their fancy arm probably turns you into an asshole, -- James S.a. Corey
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He'd been driven by his fear to become someone else. Someone who handled fear by turning it into violence. -- James S.a. Corey
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Thing is, we're humans. We're tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again. -- James S.a. Corey
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Ren, her official second, was a Belter and, like all Belters, passionate about environmental control systems the way normal people were with sex or religion. -- James S.a. Corey
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Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they're exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge. -- James S.a. Corey
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And the moral high ground is a lovely place," Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. "It won't stop a missile, though. -- James S.a. Corey
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The birds, on the other hand, were going crazy. They filled the air with chirps and trills and songs. It was probably sparrow for Holy shit, what's going on, we're all gonna die, but it sounded pretty. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult. -- James S.a. Corey
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His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence. -- James S.a. Corey
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He's using you as his external, aftermarket conscience. -- James S.a. Corey
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All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief. -- James S.a. Corey
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The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight. I'm -- James S.a. Corey
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More than once he'd wandered into a brothel and left only when they threw him out with an emptied account, a sore groin, and a prostate as dry as the Sahara desert. -- James S.a. Corey
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It was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren't sure what they were looking at. But -- James S.a. Corey
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the devil has always lived in men when they reach too far, when they fail to ask if they should do something just because they can do it. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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The pachinko machines lit them blue and green and shrieked in artificial delight. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holden always found it strangely disconcerting when an exaggerated Texas drawl came from someone his brain said should be speaking with Punjabi accents. And -- James S.a. Corey
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The whole voting thing had seemed like such a good idea when he'd first brought it up. After losing his first vote, not so much. They'd all be dead in two days, so at least it probably wouldn't happen again. "If -- James S.a. Corey
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now he was about to be killed because of yet another petty human with more power than sense. It didn't seem fair. -- James S.a. Corey
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He wouldn't miss the planet, but he would miss the people. Just like always. -- James S.a. Corey
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It felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between. -- James S.a. Corey
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Catastrophe was just one part of what always happened. It was a prelude to what came next. -- James S.a. Corey
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A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat. -- James S.a. Corey
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My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough." At -- James S.a. Corey
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Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. -- James S.a. Corey
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Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past. -- James S.a. Corey
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Human violence as a kind of fractal - self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swelled over the course of an evening or a century. The shoving and shoving back, neither side sure they wanted to escalate and uncertain how to back down. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible. -- James S.a. Corey
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Sleeping and waking lost their edges. Healing and being ill too. It was difficult if not impossible to draw a line between them. -- James S.a. Corey
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The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire. -- James S.a. Corey
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No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. -- James S.a. Corey
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Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is. -- James S.a. Corey
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On Mars, the joke went, a man's hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room. -- James S.a. Corey
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I don't kill children," she said. "Not even when it's the right thing to do. -- James S.a. Corey
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Humans can be better than they are, so let's do that. -- James S.a. Corey
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No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role. -- James S.a. Corey
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person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I'm -- James S.a. Corey
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The pediatric autodoc scanned him, considered for the longest five seconds of Naomi's life, and declared the baby safely within standard error. -- James S.a. Corey
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Dead's not good, but at least it's simple. -- James S.a. Corey
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Could we please not assault the patient with the crushed spinal cord," she said as she did, "because this makes me very uncomfortable. -- James S.a. Corey
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In her prison gown, she looked like a ghost. Something already dead that hadn't stopped moving yet. Which, he figured, might be accurate. -- James S.a. Corey
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What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless. But -- James S.a. Corey
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There were going to be plenty of them who would have been just as opposed to the Republic. Trust the wrong one, and they'd all be fed straight to the Empire. Leia. Luke. All of them. It was the nature of the game. -- James S.a. Corey
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Holy shit," Holden said. "Did you just magic that door open? -- James S.a. Corey
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Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that's weird. That or Oh shit. -- James S.a. Corey
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her sensor package could track a golf ball and hit it with a torpedo from half the solar system away." "Oh, -- James S.a. Corey
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Fred shook his head again, this time giving Holden the vaguely frightened look of a man who wanted to back slowly out of the room. -- James S.a. Corey
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I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is." "I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times. -- James S.a. Corey
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The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit. -- James S.a. Corey
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I have killed, but I am not a killer because a killer is a monster, and monsters aren't afraid. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nguyen was a war hawk. The kind of adolescent boy who still thought any problem could be solved by shooting it enough. -- James S.a. Corey
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Knowing that all you can give isn't enough is its own burden. -- James S.a. Corey
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Maybe 5 percent, maybe less, were the ones who sucked it up, learned the lesson, and moved on. The Julies. The good ones. His -- James S.a. Corey
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Political favors are how I express affection, she said. -- James S.a. Corey
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[T]hat question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It's meaningless. -- James S.a. Corey
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There was nothing like dying publicly on a few billion screens to help reconnect with folks. -- James S.a. Corey
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Also, Nathan, if you're listening, and I assume you are, I'm the best and only friend you've got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I'll have you turning tricks out of a prefab shed on the side of the highway. I'm trying to save humanity here. -- James S.a. Corey
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Start a life in the off-world colonies! We can help! -- James S.a. Corey
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Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses. -- James S.a. Corey
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How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?" "At least once more? -- James S.a. Corey
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The accepted etymology of the word religion was that it came from religere, meaning "to bind together," but Cicero had said its true root was relegere, "to reread." The truth was, she liked both answers. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's not healthy having God sleeping right there where we can all watch him dream. It scares the shit out of us. It scares the shit out of me. -- James S.a. Corey
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The dead Martian had been affixed to the wall with a single-charge prospector's spike. -- James S.a. Corey
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Well, mostly I'm a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante's killer? That's kind of awesome. -- James S.a. Corey
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My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety. -- James S.a. Corey
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It's the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa." Fred -- James S.a. Corey
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It was strange how nothing could change while everything did. -- James S.a. Corey
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A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it's too late." "I -- James S.a. Corey
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I was a Methodist when I was anything. What flavor are you selling? The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight. -- James S.a. Corey
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Oh good," Amos replied. "Somebody got killed there. That's how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stars are better off without us," he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear. -- James S.a. Corey
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Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go. -- James S.a. Corey
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Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them -- James S.a. Corey
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You can't take the Razorback," he said to the tiny red triangles. "We are gone and gone and gone. -- James S.a. Corey
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Doors and corners are always dangerous, because you're moving into something without being sure what's there. By the time you see the enemy, you're exposed to them." "Sir?" Havelock -- James S.a. Corey
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Working in some corporations was like going to prison. You adopted the views of the people around you. -- James S.a. Corey
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it was impossible to forget that they were going into the unknown. Here there be monsters. -- James S.a. Corey
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Owning your own racing ship wasn't even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh's pyramid with a reaction drive. -- James S.a. Corey
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Anonymous people living anonymous lives. -- James S.a. Corey
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The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away. -- James S.a. Corey
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Only, so far, it was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren't sure what they were looking at. -- James S.a. Corey
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When what came next didn't matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences. -- James S.a. Corey
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Sure, boss," Havelock said. "Cool as November, smooth as China silk. -- James S.a. Corey
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The advantage of being in command of all the guns was that no matter how nicely you asked for something, it was still an order. -- James S.a. Corey
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Everyone's got history," Baasen said amiably. "Man still has to work, whatever's in his past, eh? -- James S.a. Corey
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An orange-and-purple suit so ugly it approached violence -- James S.a. Corey
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Amos will be murdered by space hookers, but at least he'll die the way he lived. -- James S.a. Corey
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Stupidity was usually a lesser crime than vigilantism. -- James S.a. Corey
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Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they'd never do if they were really thinking about it. -- James S.a. Corey
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Well", Holden said, his voice grim, "we have a major problem. We're out of coffee."
"We still got beer," Amos said.
"Yes," Holden said. "But beer is not coffee. -- James S.a. Corey
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It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws." In -- James S.a. Corey
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You can tell you've found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it. -- James S.a. Corey
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That wasn't political," she said. "He's a performance artist. -- James S.a. Corey
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Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines. -- James S.a. Corey
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She'd stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle. -- James S.a. Corey
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Who gets paid? Someone always gets paid. I'm -- James S.a. Corey
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If this isn't important, I will rip your throat open and piss down your lungs. -- James S.a. Corey
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Like any other ship that flew the space lanes, the Knight was hardened against radiation. You couldn't get anywhere near Jupiter's massive radiation belt unless you were. -- James S.a. Corey
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You know," he said, "you have a really weird relationship with treason. -- James S.a. Corey
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Standard ops," Kelly growled. "Those are my friends." "Sorry, -- James S.a. Corey
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Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up. -- James S.a. Corey
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Do we have a plan?" "A couple," Jim said. "Either of them good?" "Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible. -- James S.a. Corey
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The ones that don't kill you don't count. -- James S.a. Corey
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They'd made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they'd hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified. -- James S.a. Corey
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Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. -- James S.a. Corey
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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. -- James S.a. Corey
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Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon. -- James S.a. Corey
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Fish and company start to smell after three days. -- James S.a. Corey
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See, this is why I can't ever be in command," she said. "Don't like making tough calls with incomplete information?" "More I'm not suicidally irresponsible," she replied, -- James S.a. Corey
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Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made. -- James S.a. Corey
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There had to be a moment, some decision that you made, and before it, you were one person, and after it, someone else. -- James S.a. Corey
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Miller had thought hope was dead. He'd thought all his chances had been played, and then, like a bitch, it all hauled itself up out of the grave. Get -- James S.a. Corey
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Outer Planets Alliance -- James S.a. Corey
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Generation ship," Holden said. "Something like that will give us the stars." "Or a lonely death on a long trip to nowhere," Miller replied. "You -- James S.a. Corey
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The immediate danger wasn't the Ring. At least not right now. It was humans taking their anxiety out on the nearest enemy they could actually see: each other. -- James S.a. Corey
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What are they going to do about it?"br>"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."br>Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads. -- James S.a. Corey