Michael

“Sone of it was their fear dressing up in party clothes, but some of it wasn’t”
― Corey, James S. A.

“Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?”
― Robert Harris, Imperium

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That wasn’t just the Belt. That was all of history. The people who’d just been going about their lives were the ones who could speak to the actual cost of war. They paid it first. Men like Marco could orchestrate vast battles, order the looting and destruction of worlds, and never run out of coffee.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes