Leviathan Falls (The Expanse #9)

by James S.A. Corey

He wanted to reach out to her, take her hand in his, but that would have been for his comfort.

“You’re overthinking this, Cap’n. You got now and you got the second your lights go out. Meantime is the only time there is. All that matters is what we do during it.”

“We’re trying to do all of this with humans. Shortsightedness is coded in our DNA.”

The love of a parent for their kid is the last thing to go.”

When they’d been young together, they’d been beautiful just because youth had a beauty all its own. It took age to see whether the beauty could last.

I am profoundly fucking grateful that I got that. I think of how easy it would have been for us to miss each other, and I can’t even imagine what that lifetime would have been.”