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“I don't always have to understand the people I love.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you. How could a guy live without meanness?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Stars are better off without us.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn’t know which one.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Anyone can kill a planet from orbit,” Holden replied. “You don’t even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock. That thing out there could kill… Shit. Anything.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“I didn’t switch sides. I stopped playing.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Point of clarification,” Alex said, raising his hand. “We have an apocalypse comin’? Was that a thing we knew about?” “Venus,” Avasarala said. “Oh. That apocalypse,” Alex said, lowering his hand. “Right.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The kind poets write about, then.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“If life transcends death

Then I will seek for you there

If not, then there too”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Good, because I don’t use sex as a weapon,” Bobbie said. “I use weapons as weapons.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“She’d stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Intellectually, he knew he wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself or his happiness to save everyone else. But that didn’t stop the tiny voice at the back of his head that said, Fuck everyone else, I want my girlfriend back.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“There was justice to be had. He just couldn’t afford it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?” “At least once more?”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“He’d read accounts of extravehicular euphoria, but the experience was unlike anything he’d imagined. He was the eye of God, drinking in the light of infinite stars, and he was a speck of dust on a speck of dust, clipped by his mag boots to the body of a ship unthinkably more powerful than himself, and unimportant before the face of the abyss.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“He’s young. He still sleeps sometimes. It’s a weakness.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War