Dack Powell

“The energy was high, people were smiling, laughing, clowning around. It was a manic high. Panic pressed through a cheesecloth mask of normalcy. It wasn't going to last.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakeable conviction that for you, things would be different, the laws of physics would cut you a break. The missiles would never hit...Maybe for other people...But not for you. And when youth was lucky enough to survive its optimism, all Miller had left was a little fear, a little envy, and the overwhelming sense of life's fragility.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Silence is also a message.
-Ye Wenjie (tv adaptation)”
― Cixin Liu

“It was camaraderie writ large. A synonym for loyalty that was stronger than the concept that it echoed. (Alex's) experience of real family, of blood relations, was a lot more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing why they had signed up for it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games