Babylon's Ashes
James S.A. Corey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”
“Do we have a plan?” “A couple.” Jim said. “Either of them good?” “Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.”
“We’re not people,” he said. “We’re the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine.” “Men are fighters,” Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. “Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It’s always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.” “And look where it got us,” Holden said.”
“You use a welding rig to weld things. You use a gun to shoot things. You use a Bobbie Draper to fuck a bunch of bad guys permanently up.”
“History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.”
“My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.” At”
“Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That’s what war is.”
“Knowing that all you can give isn’t enough is its own burden.”
“All beautiful things should have just a little sorrow about them. Made them seem real.”
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Book Keywords:
burden, knowing
