And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die.
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“It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn’t intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.”
― Abaddon's Gate
― Abaddon's Gate
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
― Nemesis Games
― Nemesis Games
“Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp.”
― Caliban's War
― Caliban's War
“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”
― Abaddon's Gate
― Abaddon's Gate
“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.”
― Leviathan Wakes
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”
― Leviathan Wakes
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