Babylon's Ashes (Expanse, #6)

by James S.A. Corey

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

All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief.

They underestimated the anger in the Belt. And the desperation. People want Inaros to be a hero, and so what he does, they interpret as heroism.”

All beautiful things should have just a little sorrow about them. Made them seem real.

“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”

And Jim knew that. He didn't ask because he needed an answer. He asked because he needed her to know the answer mattered to him. That was all.

We’re spending our whole lives together, so we need to be really gentle.