Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

by James S.A. Corey

“That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”

There is nothing so destructive and also so easy to overlook as a bad idea.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis.

Overdoing is also falling short. Better to have a good night end well than push for perfect and undo what had been achieved.

The only right you have with anyone in this life is the right to walk away.

“Thank you, but I don’t deserve any mercy.” “Of course you don’t. That’s why they call it mercy. If you deserve it, they call it justice.”

Doing the right thing has to be enough in itself. It’s not about getting the pat on the head.

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