Quotes of James S.A. Corey

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“There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?” ― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.” ― James S.A. Corey, 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.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.” ― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
“What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?” Amos said. “Give ’em a break. It’s their first.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.” ― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games
“Stars are better off without us.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.” ― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
“If life transcends deathThen I will seek for you thereIf not, then there too” ― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
“Right,” Holden said. “No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet.” ― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
“First off, get your shit together. Panic doesn’t help. It never helps. Deep breaths, figure this out, make the right moves. Fear is the mind-killer. Ha. Geek.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.” ― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
“I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.” ― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes
“Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“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.” ― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
“Humans can be better than they are, so let’s do that.” ― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
“It was a real book— onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.” ― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.” ― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
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