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41 " The flicker of her eyes was a conversation in itself: grief and exhaustion and despair, and also determination. The knowledge that they’d been playing the game of no-right-answer for decades, and that it would outlast them, the way history outlasted everyone. "
― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
42 " I know, and I appreciate it. That’s a later-on problem. If we don’t get the rest of this right, it’s not going to matter. If you still exist as an individual who wants to fix me? That’ll mean a lot of things have gone right. "
43 " You got now and you got the second your lights go out. Meantime is the only time there is. All that matters is what we do during it. "
44 " It would have worked,” she said. “If we’d cooperated, it would have worked.” “It would have been better.” “I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are. "
45 " He was older, thinner, more worn around the edges than the man she’d met decades before on the Canterbury, but the openness she remembered was there too. The vulnerability. The almost genetic inability to believe that things wouldn’t work out for the best if he just followed his heart. “I’m sorry,” he said. “Really? I haven’t watched you try to kill yourself enough times? Now you make me watch you succeed in slow motion. But you’re sorry.” “Yeah. That part is pretty shitty. "
46 " So yeah, you fucked me and mine over. And we’ve done shit here that the gods will never forgive us for. But when you’re feeling bad about it, remember that the alternative was somehow even worse. "
47 " As she crisscrossed the landscape, her mind relaxed into the experience of the search, and time became less concrete. She’d heard about a similar kind of flow with artists when they fell deeply into their work. It was a lovely way to be—alone in her head with the pure focus of the task. "
48 " her cohort in the Imahara Institute’s upper university program "
49 " The relief at a real prospect of success showed her how carefully she’d been ignoring the possibility of failure. "
50 " Launch when ready,” she said. “Li, target the Sparrowhawk as soon as we’re clear of the dock.” “Disable or destroy?” “Kill the fuck out of them. "
51 " Well, maybe you’ll get lucky and we’ll win and the algebra will matter. Then twenty, thirty years down the road, something else will show up to slaughter everyone, and you can take care of that one. "
52 " You’re going to be fighting for the fate of humanity. I’m going to be worrying about algebra assignments.” “Well, maybe you’ll get lucky and we’ll win and the algebra will matter. Then twenty, thirty years down the road, something else will show up to slaughter everyone, and you can take care of that one. "
53 " I saw him again. Just now. I saw him the way he used to be. At his best. And love isn’t what got him there. And it wasn’t care. And it wasn’t time. He saw something incredibly, stupidly dangerous that needed to be done and only he could do. "
54 " Light, as I’m sure you know, is a membrane phenomenon on the surface of time. "
55 " Tanaka opened her hands, palms up. Floating as she was with legs crossed at the ankle, she felt like a painting of a saint being assumed into heaven. The patron saint of putting up with idiots, whoever that was. "
56 " Trejo’s fighting to hold on to an empire. I’m fighting to have something that’s recognizable as the universe with living things in it. "
57 " It took age to see whether the beauty could last. "
58 " There’s sensor data already? I mean, I figured there’d be a few hours at least before they gathered enough to have a meeting about.” “When people don’t know anything,” Amos said, “they love having meetings to talk about it. "
59 " Good,” her aunt said, then stood up and held out her hand to pull Aliana up off the bed. “Anger I can do something with. Sadness, fear, self-pity, self-doubt? They are inwardly focused. They keep you locked inside yourself. They’re useless. Anger is outwardly focused. Anger wants to take action. Anger is useful. Are you ready to use it?” Aliana had nodded. It seemed safer than speaking. “Then I’ll show you how. "
60 " Abusive foster caregivers are a common issue in aggressively individualist social orders. "