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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) QUOTES

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) QUOTES

1 " Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

2 " Fish and company start to smell after three days. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

3 " We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later it's like nothing ever happened "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

4 " Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

5 " Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

6 " When Miller had started working homicide, one of the things that had struck him was the surreal calm of the victims’ families. People who had just lost wives, husbands, children, and lovers. People whose lives had just been branded by violence. More often than not, they were calmly offering drinks and answering questions, making the detectives feel welcome. A civilian coming in unaware might have mistaken them for whole. It was only in the careful way they held themselves and the extra quarter second it took their eyes to focus that Miller could see how deep the damage was. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

7 " The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

8 " A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

9 " It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

10 " That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

11 " Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

12 " Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

13 " He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the way up. Back then he'd assumed it was just learned behavior, the body adapting so it could get enough rest in an environment that never really had downtime. Now he wondered if those vets found the constant noise preferable. A way to keep their lost shipmates away. They probably went home after their twenty and never slept again. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

14 " Welcome to Tycho Station,” said the Butcher of Anderson Station. “Call me Fred. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

15 " Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

16 " His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

17 " Posthuman. It was a word that came up in the media every five or six years, and it meant different things every time. Neural regrowth hormone? Posthuman. Sex robots with inbuilt pseudo intelligence? Posthuman. Self-optimizing network routing? Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

18 " Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

19 " A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

20 " People always whispered when they were hiding. Wrapped in a space suit and surrounded by vacuum, Gomez could have been lighting fireworks inside his armor and no one would have heard it, but he whispered. "

― James S.A. Corey , Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)