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Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8) QUOTES

Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8) QUOTES

1 " Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

2 " Easy to make rules,” Emma said. “Easy to make systems with a perfect logic and rigor. All you need to do is leave out the mercy, yeah? Then when you put people into it and they get chewed to nothing, it’s the person’s fault. Not the rules. Everything we do that’s worth shit, we’ve done with people. Flawed, stupid, lying, rules-breaking people. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

3 " You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

4 " The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so they’re vulnerable. We all define ourselves by the people around us, because that’s the kind of monkey we are. We can’t transcend it. So when they watch you, they hand you the power to change what they are too. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

5 " There was no better way to seem trustworthy than to be liked by a dog, and there was no better way to convince a dog to like you than bribery. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

6 " But pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

7 " I’m not sure dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

8 " There are people I love. There are people who have loved me. I fought for what I believed, protected those I could, and stood my ground against the encroaching darkness. Good enough. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

9 " Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’ gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered a lot more close-enough-is-close-enough than actual design. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

10 " She tapped the red dot on the map that was the Tempest. “Anything you can do, I can do better. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

11 " Like a religious fanatic, the man really believed that everything he’d done was justified by his goal in doing it. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

12 " It was contrast that gave things shape. Brightness made darkness. Fullness made emptiness. Loneliness defined the borders of whatever not-loneliness was called. They were comparative. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

13 " That’s the secret, you know.” “What’s the secret?” Kajri smiled. “The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

14 " It was normal to sacrifice animals. Rats, pigeons, pigs. Dogs. Chimpanzees. Biology had always suffered the cognitive push-pull of proving that humans were just another kind of animal while at the same time claiming to be morally different in kind. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

15 " Having a new high consul would be difficult under any circumstances, but it would be less difficult if there were a story with it. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

16 " We’re all going to lose each other eventually, and that’s been true since before we were a crew. That’s what being born means. Everything else is just specifics. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

17 " Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

18 " It gets better, though. Right?” “Sometimes. Sometimes it’s just one shit sandwich after another. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

19 " I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

20 " That was what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy. "

― James S.A. Corey , Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)