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I’ll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged. Sorry about that

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

It kept the fear at bay. Not perfectly, but nothing short of death was going to end fear perfectly.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“But, Bobbie? Really, really don’t die out there.” “No one lives forever, sir,” Bobbie said, “but as long as it doesn’t compromise the mission, I’ll try to live through it.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“Next is enough,” Naomi said. “As long as you always see the next step, you can walk the whole way.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“Context changed,” she said. “I’m still the same.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

the appearance of normalcy was sometimes almost as good as the real thing.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

Not just tired, exactly. His skin got waxy and his eyes sort of sank back in the sockets when that happened. Not exhaustion, then. Something else. He looked like a kid who just realized he’d jumped in the deep end of the pool and was trying to figure out whether he should embarrass himself by shouting for help or drown with a little dignity.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“I’ve spent a lot of time with the dead. He’ll be okay now. You go take care of the ones that lived through it.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

Kings were always the last to feel the famine.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

They underestimated the anger in the Belt. And the desperation. People want Inaros to be a hero, and so what he does, they interpret as heroism.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

“I thought if you told people facts, they’d draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)

He nodded at the small gold packet in Alex’s hand. “What’s that?” Alex held it up. He’d gotten the packet from a dispenser in the men’s room. The foil had a dragon’s head embossed on it and some nonsense kanji that didn’t mean anything. Holden’s brow furrowed. “Sobriety meds?” Alex felt himself blushing and tried to hide it by smiling. “Well, I’m thinking I may be in a situation here pretty soon where everybody needs to be able to agree to whatever they’re agreeing to.”

— Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 6)