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Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) QUOTES

Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) QUOTES

1 " Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

2 " The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local ecosystems so exotic that their bodies could hardly recognize them as life at all, isolated, exhausted, sometimes at the edge of their resources. And what they wanted was to send back help. He listened to their voices, saw the distress in their eyes. He couldn't help, but love them a little bit.

Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself. Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’t come without the other. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

3 " Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

4 " God save us all from good-looking men. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

5 " But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

6 " Some things were secret even after you told them. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

7 " Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

8 " History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

9 " 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. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

10 " I have killed, but I am not a killer because a killer is a monster, and monsters aren’t afraid. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

11 " Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That’s what war is. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

12 " 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. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

13 " My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.” At "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

14 " We’re not people,” he said. “We’re the stories that people tell each other about us. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

15 " The same beautiful bullshit that everyone told themselves. That they were special. That they mattered. That some vast intelligence behind the curtains of reality cared what happened to them. And in all the history of the species, they’d all died anyway. “Attention, "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

16 " All beautiful things should have just a little sorrow about them. Made them seem real. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

17 " It’s a war. Wars aren’t like that.” “Aren’t like what?” Roberts said. “Aren’t like stories about wars,” Vandercaust answered solemnly. “Stories about wars come after. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

18 " I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don’t understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That’s probably safe to play with, right? "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

19 " I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.” Rosenfeld looked down at his bulb, his body hunching a degree in submission. Filip had felt his father’s victory like it was his own. “Didn’t finish reading that book, did you?” Rosenfeld asked mildly. "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

20 " All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief. Dawes "

― James S.A. Corey , Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)