Corey's Quotes

#1. Corey's face loomed near mine, the grin was broad. "Marc told us about the boat crash. That was awesome. I wish I'd seen it.

C.L.Stone

#2. What are they going to do about it?"
"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."
Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads.

James S.A. Corey

#3. What happened?" she asked.
"The landing pad blew up."
"Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?"
"No. No, they really don't.

James S.A. Corey

#4. We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Charanpal.

James S.A. Corey

#5. Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.

Corey Ford

#6. The man he'd once been wasn't a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had.

James S.A. Corey

#7. And with all of the enemy's citizens living at the bottom of huge gravity wells, we don't even have to aim particularly well. Einstein was right. We will be fighting the next war with rocks. But the Belt has rocks that will turn the surface of Mars into a molten sea.

James S.A. Corey

#8. No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

James S.A. Corey

#9. Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

Corey Hart

#10. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

#11. Around them, the hotel restaurant was busy. Last shift's prostitutes mixed with the next shift's tourists and businessmen at the cheap pink-lit buffet.

James S.A. Corey

#12. We're not doing one of those things where you need me to ask you a bunch of questions so you can get comfortable talking about your feelings, are we?" Alex laughed. "That never works." "So let's not do it." On

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#13. There's a dignity in consequences.

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#14. Trashy people puke," Tilly said. "Ladies are unwell.

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#15. Things changed, and they didn't change back. But sometimes they got better.

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#16. Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia." He

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#17. You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak. Miller

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#18. Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

Corey Flintoff

#19. Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.

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#20. How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull.

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#21. So you're trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?" "Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.

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#22. What your opponent wants you to think is useful data in figuring out what they think. So get the early draft, okay?

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#23. Nothing that'll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker. Alex,

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#24. Holden shot him in the throat. Somewhere in his brain stem, Detective Miller nodded in approval.

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#25. There were children playing on the commons. He thought of them as children, though he remembered thinking of himself as an adult at that age. Fifteen, sixteen years old.

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#26. Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.

Corey Flintoff

#27. You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Corey Taylor

#28. People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Corey Taylor

#29. Reputation never has very much to do with reality.

James S.A. Corey

#30. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here.

James S.A. Corey

#31. Well, you've got a full load of torpedoes and bullets, three Martian warships trailing you, one angry old lady in tea withdrawal, and a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. What do you do?

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#32. I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.

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#33. The old man was brilliant at looking somber and energetic at the same time. If he hadn't been the executive of the largest governing body in the history of the human race, he'd have made a killing promoting health drinks.

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#34. Hooray for bloated Martian defense budgets,

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#35. If you fuck with him after this, I will end every piece of you.

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#36. You're too old for fairy tales," Baasen said.

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#37. Say what you will about organized crime, at least it's organized.

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#38. You're making a mistake, shithead, Avasarala said, and dropped the connection.

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#39. His smile was curious and as serene as a well-fed predator.

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#40. Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever.

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#41. He wore his age like a statement that fighting the ravages of time and mortality was beneath his notice.

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#42. And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

Corey Flintoff

#43. Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden

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#44. I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle. The bridge went quiet.

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#45. You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low." The

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#46. Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's

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#47. Jesus," he said. "What scares the OPA?

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#48. Five hours later, the government of Ceres collapsed.

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#49. I don't understand," Holden said. "If you didn't do this, then who did?"
"See now, that's a good question, on several levels. Depending on what you mean by 'this.

James S.A. Corey

#50. It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Corey Feldman

#51. Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

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#52. We're little people in big times, yeah?

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#53. Sometimes it's a comfort to tell the same stories over and over; sometimes it's a torture

Corey Ann Haydu

#54. I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Corey Haim

#55. Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him.

James S.A. Corey

#56. When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the same sport.

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#57. 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.

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#58. Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.

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#59. Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.

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#60. There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.

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#61. Downtime's easier to enjoy when I know it'll end.

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#62. palpable. Havelock shifted slightly, pushing himself higher in

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#63. What are you doing?" asked Naomi from behind him, not from his helmet speakers. She was standing there with her helmet off. Sweat plastered her thick black hair to her head and neck.

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#64. Holden punched the comm system on the wall. "Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter Rocinante." "What

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#65. Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description.

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#66. the idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion.

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#67. It's herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

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#68. I want the right to outbid anyone else who tries to hire you. No contracts without my counteroffer." Holden held out his hand, and Fred shook it.

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#69. The tube station that arrived from the port had six wide doors, which emptied to the casino floor. Miller accepted a drink from a tired-looking woman in a G-string and bared breasts and found a screen to stand at that afforded him a view of all six doors.

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#70. Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,

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#71. The messages he watched and sent out were a kind of prayer for him, though he wouldn't have said it that way. Something that brought peace and the illusion that what they were caught up in wasn't so massively bigger than their own individual wills and hopes and intentions.

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#72. the lizard living at the base of her spine

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#73. Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general.

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#74. There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.

Corey Flintoff

#75. Doesn't take much before we have to compromise ourselves, does it?" "Get born," Michio said, pulling

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#76. Something out there has a comm array that'll put a dot the size of your anus on us from over three AU away," Alex said. "Okay, wow, that's impressive. What is our anus-sized dot saying?" Holden asked.

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#77. When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her' crush. I blme Pete's Dragon. There she was - flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.

Corey Taylor

#78. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.

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#79. Really?" Ip said, leaning forward. Her knee pressed against Alex's in a way that was absolutely innocent. Unless it wasn't, in which case it absolutely wasn't. "Never

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#80. You think somebody built those towers and structures and then just left? This whole planet is a murder scene. An empty apartment with warm food on the table and all the clothes still in the closets. This is some Croatoan shit." "The

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#81. Oh, I know. But it's like my eyes are forcing those patterns on stars that aren't really lined up the right way to make them." There was another moment of silence, then Amos said, "That's, like, one of them metaphors, right?" "It is now." "Buy

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#82. Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.

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#83. There are two sides in this, but they aren't inner planets and outer ones. Belters and everyone else. It's not like that. It's the people who want more violence and the ones who want less. And no matter what other variable you sample out of, you'll find some of both.

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#84. It's a war. Wars aren't like that." "Aren't like what?" Roberts said. "Aren't like stories about wars," Vandercaust answered solemnly. "Stories about wars come after.

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#85. She'd grown up in Martian gravity . She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy.

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#86. What?" "You're very beautiful," Holden said. "I hope I tell you that often enough." "You do." "Then I hope I don't tell you so often it gets annoying." "You don't," she

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#87. He was a professional doing an unpleasant job.

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#88. Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. "Is he mad at me?" "Sweetie," Amos said, clapping her on the back, "that just means you're not an asshole.

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#89. To suddenly be so hurt in so many different places at once left her dazed and with a sort of directionless anger. It wasn't fair that a person could be hurt so much.

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#90. Get your nuts in your palms and head forward, boys.

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#91. The last thing that made sense was to sit around, ogling girls in the park and

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#92. Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and we will glass the whole fucking moon. Do you read me?

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#93. Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.

John Corey Whaley

#94. There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

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#95. It feels like giving up.
It feels like falling into bed after an all-night rave.
It feels that right.
It's surrender. It's that thing I have been searching for.

Corey Ann Haydu

#96. I just said that. Didn't I just say that?" Prax asked.

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#97. So that was the story of who she was. The one who'd been too sensitive. Too weak.

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#98. He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit.

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#99. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I'll fight you now." Cortez

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#100. I'm saying let's go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt.

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