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Everything he wanted annoyed him as soon as he had it.

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

Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.

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

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

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

The advantage of being in command of all the guns was that no matter how nicely you asked for something, it was still an order.

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

“When the crisis comes, we all pull together naturally. It’s easy then. It’s when things drag on too long that we have to make the effort. We need to make sure everyone sees we’re all in this together.”

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

No, he was angry because he wanted to help more, and he couldn’t. Knowing that all you can give isn’t enough is its own burden. That was all. Forgive him.

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

The international district had large Norwegian and Vietnamese enclaves, but no matter the shade of their skin or the texture of their hair, ash and misery had made a single tribe of them all.

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

Even as she’d helped the volunteer teams to clear the rubble and care for the injured, she’d understood that her wracking cough and the black phlegm she spat out came from breathing in the dead.

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

Citing research by sociologist Phil Zuckerman, Sam Harris points out that the most secularized nations in the world (such as Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Holland) fare far better than the most religious countries on a wide array of societal health indices including “life expectancy, infant mortality, crime, literacy, GDP [gross domestic product], child welfare, economic equality, economic competitiveness, gender equality, health care, investments in education, rates of university enrollment, internet access, environmental protection, lack of corruption, political stability, and charity to poorer nations.”

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia

That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. (Eccles. 3:19)

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia

Values like kindness, compassion, charity, fairness, and so on tend to drop away at the periphery of many human social groups, and those formed around religion are no exception. Again, on this subject, religious doctrine is clear:

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia

The great nineteenth-century women's rights movement leader Susan B. Anthony once said, “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia

David Suzuki spoke with the First Nations aboriginal people that he worked with in Canada, whose moral philosophy is now recapitulated by modern science: And, they showed me, there is no environment out there and we are here. We are created by the earth by the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. And, the energy in our bodies, it comes from the sun. We are the environment, whatever we do to the environment, we do directly to ourselves.

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia

Based in Nigeria, another militant Islamist group called Boko Haram carried out similar strategies in their attempts to convert Nigeria to an Islamic state. Between 2009 and 2014 these men killed over 5000 civilians, mostly males, and kidnapped hundreds of women and schoolgirls.26 Their name, Boko Haram, translates as Western education is sin.

— Alpha God by Hector A. Garcia