Rebecca

“But asteroid prospectors? Water haulers? The crews that are barely eking by? Those are who Marco's talking to, and he's right because no one else is taking them into account. Not even you. They're looking at the future, and they're seeing that no one needs them anymore. Everything they do will be easier in a gravity well, and they can't go there. We have to make some kind of future that has a place for them in it. Because unless we do, they are literally nothing to lose. It's all already gone.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“In his mind, we're the good guys. Everything we say, he interprets that way. If you say you don't care if he lives or dies, it must be your dry gallows humor."
"Seriously?"
"Yep."
"That's a really stupid way to go through life."
"It's how most people do."
"Then most people are really stupid."
"And yet we made it to the stars," Peaches said.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Esá coyo on Mars who traded us for all the ships and told us where to find supplies? He's not 'Martian economic despair' o 'rising debt ratios' o 'income and access inequality. La coyo la is just some coyo. He's a man made a deal with a man who talked up some otras, and we did things. Who people are, it matters, yeah? Can't replace them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“The tools you're using here are the ones that let you get along once civilization takes over. They're the wrong shape for this work. I have no illusions about what it will take to carve out a place in this new frontier. It will take sacrifices, and it will take blood, and things we wouldn't do back where everything's regulated and controlled will have to happen here. You think we can do it with committee meetings and press releases.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn