Persepolis Rising
James S.A. Corey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.”
“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”
“Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins and what parts of it don’t count.”
“Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment, but then you’re also committing to spend your time putting out fires.”
“It'd be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a bucket of fucked." -Chrisjen Avasarala”
“Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.”
“Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter”
“Every great nation, they said, was founded on a knife and a lie.”
“The deep human instinct to come together in crisis. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what made humanity human. But he also had the dark suspicion that it was a kind of bargaining. Look, universe, see how kind and gentle and nice I am? Don’t let the hammer fall on me. Even if it was only grief and fear, he’d take it. Anything that helped them all treat each other well.”
“That seemed to be the human pattern—reach out to the unknown and then make it into the sort of thing you left in the first place.”
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