Ray Avedian

“The huge moments in life seemed like they should have more ceremony and effects. The important words—the life-changing ones—should echo a little. But they didn’t. They sounded just like everything else.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“Easy to make rules,” Emma said. “Easy to make systems with a perfect logic and rigor. All you need to do is leave out the mercy, yeah? Then when you put people into it and they get chewed to nothing, it’s the person’s fault. Not the rules. Everything we do that’s worth shit, we’ve done with people. Flawed, stupid, lying, rules-breaking people.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“But pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“It was, Elvi thought, like finding a sea turtle who thoroughly understood Godel’s incompleteness theorem, but didn’t have any sea-turtley application for it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath