Abaddon's Gate
James S.A. Corey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.”
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.”
“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.”
“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
“Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”
“History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster,”
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