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James S.A. Corey Quotes | Quotes said by James S.A. Corey

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #1

    Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch!

    The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, Suck on this, asshole.

    The ship vibrated for half a second, then paused before continuing toward the lock.

    Point defense cannons? Holden asked.

    Summary roadside justice, Alex grunted back.


  • James S.A. Corey Quote #2

    By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.

    So, of course, it came out to meet him.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #3

    Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #4

    Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #5

    Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #6

    Fish and company start to smell after three days.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #7

    He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the way up. Back then he'd assumed it was just learned behavior, the body adapting so it could get enough rest in an environment that never really had downtime. Now he wondered if those vets found the constant noise preferable. A way to keep their lost shipmates away. They probably went home after their twenty and never slept again.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #8

    He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #9

    His words were full of hope and threat.

    Like the stars.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #10

    If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered sky at the great red spot, close enough to see the swirls and eddies of a storm larger than her home world. She'd tasted water thawed from ice as old as the solar system itself. And it was that human dissatisfaction, that human audacity that had put her there.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #11

    If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good guesses because even the good guesses turn out to be wrong. So, make plausible guesses… and tell a good story.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #12

    it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #13

    It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #14

    It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #15

    It was strange how nothing could change while everything did.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #16

    It was the security man’s nightmare scenario. In the face of death, why wouldn’t there be riots? Why wouldn’t there be killing and theft and rape? If there were no consequences – or if all the consequences were the same – then anything became possible. It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including himself.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #17

    One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,Naomi said with a smirk.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #18

    Right,” Holden said. “No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #19

    She'd been attacked. Just after she came to the Belt. She was seeing that it didn't happen twice.

    Attacked, Miller said, parsing the man's tone of voice. Raped?

    I didn't ask.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #20

    She’d grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #21

    Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #22

    Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #23

    That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #24

    The ocean, just outside, seeped into everything. An olfactory reminder to everyone passing through the Ellis Island of the space age that Earth was absolutely unique to the human race. The birthplace of everything. The salt water flowing in everyone’s veins first pulled from the same oceans right outside the building. The seas had been around longer than humans, had helped create them, and then when they were all dead, it’d take their water back without a thought.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #25

    The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. 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 Quote #26

    The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #27

    The sex,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us.”
    “Well,” she said, “orgasm does release a lot of oxytocin, so I’m probably more fond of you than before.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #28

    There’s a dignity in consequences.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #29

    Well,” Han said with a sigh, “we’ve gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That’s progress of a sort.

  • James S.A. Corey Quote #30

    What have we got? Ashford said. Short form.
    It's fucking weird, sir, Chan said.

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