Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7)

by James S.A. Corey

It seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old.

The question wasn’t whether moving psychoactive alien seedpods between worlds was a good idea so much as whether someone was going to lose face in front of a committee meeting. Thus were the great decisions of history made.

I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me.

It’d be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked.”

Never in human history have we discovered something useful and then chosen not to use it.”