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“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“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, Abaddon’s Gate

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“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, Abaddon’s Gate

“History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster,”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“Right,” Holden said. “No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Once is never. Twice is always.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“There’s a dignity in consequences.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Stop making me fall in love with you, Cap, we both know it can’t go anywhere.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“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, Cibola Burn

“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Things changed, and they didn’t change back. But sometimes they got better.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“You use a welding rig to weld things. You use a gun to shoot things. You use a Bobbie Draper to fuck a bunch of bad guys permanently up.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“Knowing that all you can give isn’t enough is its own burden.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon’s Ashes

“We’re not people,” he said. “We’re the stories that people tell each other about us.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“It'd be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a bucket of fucked." -Chrisjen Avasarala”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Every great nation, they said, was founded on a knife and a lie.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“There are people I love. There are people who have loved me. I fought for what I believed, protected those I could, and stood my ground against the encroaching darkness. Good enough.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“There was no better way to seem trustworthy than to be liked by a dog, and there was no better way to convince a dog to like you than bribery.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“I’m not sure dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“The universe is always stranger than you think.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“That was what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“I’ll die for that,” Emma said. “I’ll die so that people can be fuckups and still find mercy.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“Dreams were fragile things to build with. Titanium and ceramic lasted longer.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath