Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

by James S.A. Corey

That’s the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn’t. That’s how you find out it’s too late.

all humanity was part of a single family, and that the differences that divide us are trivial compared to the deep uniting factors that bring us together.

Wars never ended because one side was defeated. They ended because the enemies were reconciled.