Top 500 James S.A. Corey Quotes (2024 Update)
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James S.A. Corey Quote: “I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don’t understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That’s probably safe to play with, right?”

201. “I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don’t understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That’s probably safe to play with, right?”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?” “At least once more?”

202. “How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?” “At least once more?”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety.”

203. “My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Like a religious fanatic, the man really believed that everything he’d done was justified by his goal in doing it.”

204. “Like a religious fanatic, the man really believed that everything he’d done was justified by his goal in doing it.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “He wouldn’t miss the planet, but he would miss the people. Just like always.”

205. “He wouldn’t miss the planet, but he would miss the people. Just like always.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “He felt the decision like a seed crystal giving form to the chaos around it, solid, hard, resolute. Desperation, mourning, and a million farewells, one to the other. The word quarantine came to him, and with the logic of dreams, it carried an unsupportable weight of horror. But within it, like the last voice in Pandora’s box, the promise of reunion. One day, when the solution was found, everything that had been lost would be regained. The gates reopened. The vast mind restored.”

206. “He felt the decision like a seed crystal giving form to the chaos around it, solid, hard, resolute. Desperation, mourning, and a million farewells, one to the other. The word quarantine came to him, and with the logic of dreams, it carried an unsupportable weight of horror. But within it, like the last voice in Pandora’s box, the promise of reunion. One day, when the solution was found, everything that had been lost would be regained. The gates reopened. The vast mind restored.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.” Rosenfeld looked down at his bulb, his body hunching a degree in submission. Filip had felt his father’s victory like it was his own. “Didn’t finish reading that book, did you?” Rosenfeld asked mildly.”

207. “I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.” Rosenfeld looked down at his bulb, his body hunching a degree in submission. Filip had felt his father’s victory like it was his own. “Didn’t finish reading that book, did you?” Rosenfeld asked mildly.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.” Fred.”

208. “It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.” Fred.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.”

209. “It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she’d taken the job to escape prosecution for killing an ex-husband. Holden liked her.”

210. “Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she’d taken the job to escape prosecution for killing an ex-husband. Holden liked her.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.” In.”

211. “It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.” In.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “So that was the story of who she was. The one who’d been too sensitive. Too weak.”

212. “So that was the story of who she was. The one who’d been too sensitive. Too weak.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The kind poets write about, then.”

213. “My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The kind poets write about, then.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “It was strange how nothing could change while everything did.”

214. “It was strange how nothing could change while everything did.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.”

215. “And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.”

216. “Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime.”

217. “He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.”

218. “No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “You don’t have a right thing, friend,” Miller said. “You’ve got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”

219. “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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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.”

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

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses.”

221. “Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks – sometimes months – spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small, separate universe.”

222. “The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks – sometimes months – spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small, separate universe.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.”

223. “Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “Keel-mounted rail gun,” Alex said with a grin. “ – that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.”

224. “Keel-mounted rail gun,” Alex said with a grin. “ – that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”

225. “Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous.”

226. “The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “High-functioning sociopaths,” Dresden said with a nod. He seemed pleased to explain it. “And extremely curious ones. As long as we kept them supplied with interesting problems to solve and unlimited resources, they remained quite content.”

227. “High-functioning sociopaths,” Dresden said with a nod. He seemed pleased to explain it. “And extremely curious ones. As long as we kept them supplied with interesting problems to solve and unlimited resources, they remained quite content.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “I’m as surprised as you are,” Avasarala said. “Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”

228. “I’m as surprised as you are,” Avasarala said. “Though I feel like I shouldn’t be. I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Maybe it was a cumulative process, like smoking cigarettes. One didn’t do much. Five didn’t do much more. Every emotion he’d shut down, every human contact he’d spurned, every love and friendship and moment of compassion from which he’d turned had taken him a degree away from himself.”

229. “Maybe it was a cumulative process, like smoking cigarettes. One didn’t do much. Five didn’t do much more. Every emotion he’d shut down, every human contact he’d spurned, every love and friendship and moment of compassion from which he’d turned had taken him a degree away from himself.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “We may have to get clever before the next one shows up, but no matter what happens, we’ll keep firing until that thing is a cloud of complex molecules and regret.”

230. “We may have to get clever before the next one shows up, but no matter what happens, we’ll keep firing until that thing is a cloud of complex molecules and regret.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.”

231. “You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “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.”

232. “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.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “That seemed to be the human pattern – reach out to the unknown and then make it into the sort of thing you left in the first place. In Holden’s experience, humanity’s drive out into the universe was maybe one part hunger for adventure and exploration to two parts just wanting to get the hell away from each other.”

233. “That seemed to be the human pattern – reach out to the unknown and then make it into the sort of thing you left in the first place. In Holden’s experience, humanity’s drive out into the universe was maybe one part hunger for adventure and exploration to two parts just wanting to get the hell away from each other.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “It seems to me the better question is whether there’s any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.”

234. “It seems to me the better question is whether there’s any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy...”

235. “Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy...”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Cells became molecules – countless and complex and varied. The demarcation of one thing and another failed. There was only a community of molecules, shifting in a vast dance. And then the atoms that made the molecules gave up their space, and she was a breath. A mist. A tiny play of fields and interactions in a vacuum as perfect as space. She was a vibration in nothingness.”

236. “Cells became molecules – countless and complex and varied. The demarcation of one thing and another failed. There was only a community of molecules, shifting in a vast dance. And then the atoms that made the molecules gave up their space, and she was a breath. A mist. A tiny play of fields and interactions in a vacuum as perfect as space. She was a vibration in nothingness.”

— James S.A. Corey

James S.A. Corey Quote: “That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”

237. “That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.”

238. “Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.”

239. “Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Burton’s misfortune was to be born where and when he was, in a city of scars and vice, in an age when the division in the popular mind was between living on government-funded basic support or having an actual profession and money of your own.”

240. “Burton’s misfortune was to be born where and when he was, in a city of scars and vice, in an age when the division in the popular mind was between living on government-funded basic support or having an actual profession and money of your own.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Mark Watney, out of Mars.”

241. “Mark Watney, out of Mars.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.”

242. “Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Oh, I’m not dying out here,” Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. “Worst-case scenario, I’m dying inside there.”

243. “Oh, I’m not dying out here,” Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. “Worst-case scenario, I’m dying inside there.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other.”

244. “He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Yeah,” Chris said. “I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I’m an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I’m a hero.”

245. “Yeah,” Chris said. “I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I’m an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I’m a hero.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “It’s all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.”

246. “It’s all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Political favors are how I express affection,” she said.”

247. “Political favors are how I express affection,” she said.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.”

248. “Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “Excitement and dread wore each other’s clothes, spoke in the same voice.”

249. “Excitement and dread wore each other’s clothes, spoke in the same voice.”

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James S.A. Corey Quote: “No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

250. “No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

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