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He told himself that, but he was getting less and less persuasive. Not knowing was the worst thing. The second-worst thing as being chased by a bunch of top-of-the-line warships that really wanted to kill you. (Daniel Abraham)
Hell no,” Jim said when they were alone in the suite. "Absolutely no. No fucking way, no. There have got to be a billion different ways to say no, and I'd still have to cycle through them a couple times to really express the depth of no on this one. Clarissa Mao? On the Roci? How is that anything but a massive load of let's-not-do-that? View quote
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All of them do what they think is right, and tell themselves that they're moral people with the strength to do the necessary things, however terrible they seem at the time. Every atrocity that has been done to us had someone behind it who thought what they did was justified. And here I am. A moral person with the strength to do this. Because it's justified. View quote
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If we're not willing to win the fight, I'm not sure what we're doing in the cage. View quote
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Avasarala stretched her right leg, feeling the ache in it. It would be worse in the morning. Lifting weights was an argument against a benign God. As if that needed more evidence. View quote
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That's the problem with things you can't do twice,” Naomi said. "You can't ever know how it would have gone if it had been the other way.” "No. But you can say that if we don't do something different, it'll happen again. And again. And again, over and over until something changes the game. View quote
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An unshakable faith in humanity.” "It's true,” he said, shaking his head. Or maybe nuzzling a little. "Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers. View quote
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She'd ended with I'll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged. View quote
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As an old drill sergeant had told her, pain is the warrior's friend. Pain reminds you that you aren't dead yet. View quote
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The question wasn't whether moving psychoactive alien seedpods between worlds was a good idea so much as whether someone was going to lose face in front of a committee meeting. Thus were the great decisions of history made. View quote
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I mean, I'm all for forgiveness and bygones being bygones, but it's easier to stomach that after the assholes are all dead.”. (Daniel Abraham)
All the food chemists in the system will never do better than evolution at making a decent tea leaf. View quote
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See if there's anyone out there with a plan, or if we're going to have to make one up on our own.” "We can do that,” Amos said. "Shouldn't be hard.” "You sure?” Alex said. "This is Medina Station under occupation by a bunch of splinter Martian military expats. It's not Baltimore.” Amos' smile was as placid as always. "Everywhere's Baltimore. View quote
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Put a dozen people in front of their cameras, and you'd wind up with thirteen opinions. View quote
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It was, to say the least, a very high cost and very low probability of success. Singh assumed there was a faith element to the risk that he was just missing. In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math. View quote
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That says more about you than about the reality of things. View quote
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The universe was tricky, and its sense of humor came with teeth. View quote
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Still. She had hoped. It never hurt to hope, except when it did. View quote
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An invisible line in space, unmarked by anything more than what people believed about it. And that was enough. View quote
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Every revolution needed its mad bombers, apparently. View quote
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Her heart was pounding. Her muscles ached. She'd just killed two of the enemy. There would always be a little something-that tug on her humanity that came from doing violence. There was a satisfaction too. It didn't mean she was a good woman or a bad one. It meant she was a Marine. (Daniel Abraham)
It was a day with a lot of ways to die packed in it. View quote
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It's the reward of old age,” Avasarala said. "You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.” "You're not selling it,” Drummer said. "Fuck you, then. Die young. See if I care. View quote
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Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one now. Whatever happened, she could be certain that things wouldn't stay the way they were now. And if she stayed smart and clever and lucky, she'd be able to affect how the next change came. Or take advantage of it. View quote
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Alex worried about that. Jillian was mean as a snake. When he'd told Bobbie that, she'd responded, I just make sure she never runs out of mice. He still didn't know quite what that meant. View quote
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