{"author":"James S.A. Corey","author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey","total_quotes":83,"quotes":[{"text":"This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of Armageddon. Pictures of terrified people running away from some formless fiery doom that burned their world down behind them, while smug worshipers—of the correct religion, of course—watched from safety as God got with the smiting.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["armageddon","doom","fire","god","millennialist","smiting","worship"],"id":1148,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["alien-technology","analogy","awareness","transcendence"],"id":2507,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"It felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["awareness","sleep"],"id":7910,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that periodically changed the rules of physics and had killed a bunch of them, but now they’d decided to start shooting each other too.Yes, very bad.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["aliens","bad","circumstances","death","orbit","physics"],"id":12532,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["altitude","friction","orbit","physics","rounding-error","speed","velocity"],"id":14715,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"There’s a dignity in consequences.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["consequences","dignity"],"id":20069,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"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.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["jarhead","marines","military","sacrifice"],"id":26296,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch!'The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, 'Suck on this, asshole.'The ship vibrated for half a second, then paused before continuing toward the lock.'Point defense cannons?' Holden asked.'Summary roadside justice,' Alex grunted back.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["combat","military","retribution","space-combat"],"id":29750,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["biology","disaster","ecology","nature"],"id":32297,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["peace","war"],"id":35928,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}