Protomolecule Quotes

#1. A man can marry a thousand women but his heart is only capable of suitably loving one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I've been called worse by better.

Sol Star

#3. This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise.

James S.A. Corey

#4. Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

John Updike

#5. Since my earliest years I felt nothing but shame for the useless casing of flesh I inhabit.

Stephen Fry

#6. The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn't needed to destroy humanity. They'd given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they'd leaped on it.

James S.A. Corey

#7. learn whether to pivot or persevere.

Eric Ries

#8. There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point.

James S.A. Corey

#9. My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety.

James S.A. Corey

#10. When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

Mooji

#11. Singh in computational biology held forth on her theory of the protomolecule as a Guzman-style quantum computer one night over dinner, and when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap.

James S.A. Corey

#12. Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

M.I.A.

#13. Too many people with too many agendas, and everyone was worried that the other guy would shoot them in the back. Of all the ways to go and meet the God-like alien whatever-they-were that built the protomolecule, this was the stupidest, the most dangerous, and - for Bull's money - the most human.

James S.A. Corey