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The white LED lights didn’t pretend to mimic sunlight.
The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.
It was funny, he thought, how you could make someone’s voice out from the smallest sounds. A cough or a sigh. Or the little gasp right before she died.
A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been.
Holden frowned, angry lines at the corners of his mouth and eyes. Miller watched a little piece of the man’s idealism die and was sorry that it gave him joy.
The ship’s expert medical system dispensed them for him every week with a warning that failing to take them on schedule would lead to horrific death. He took them. He would for the rest of his life. Missing a few would just mean that wasn’t very long.
“I know what you did on Eros,” Fred said quietly. Dresden chuckled. The sound made Miller’s flesh crawl. “Mr. Johnson,” Dresden said. “Nobody knows what we did on Eros.
“Let me get this straight,” he said. “You’ll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?” Dresden cocked his head. “I don’t know the reference.”
you’re thinking too small. Building humanity’s greatest empire is like building the world’s largest anthill. Insignificant. 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. What have they become since then? With another two billion years to advance?”
