Cibola Burn (Expanse, #4)

by James S.A. Corey

Why did some people die and others live? Where was the justice in it?

“Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,” she said. “We don’t do that here.”

“A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I’m who I am, and it wasn’t what my wife wanted me to be, and somethin’ had to break.

“It’s still on you. I will never live down not being the person my wife needed after she spent twenty years waitin’ for me. I can never make that right. Don’t go feelin’ sorry for yourself. You fucked up. You failed the people you love. They’re payin’ the price for it right now and you demean them every second you don’t own that shit.”