How It Unfolds Quotes

“Doctors. You’ll excuse me, I hope, from your very erudite conversation on the long-term value of cock.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“And when we weren’t anymore, we stopped. That’s worth more than you give it credit for. It’s possible to be faithful to something that’s in the past. It’s not a betrayal to build something new when something old is finished.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“How long does something have to last for us to call it a success? They rose, they lasted for a while, they fell. Things don’t have to last forever.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“For me, some chances you take just because the possibilities are beautiful.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“It's possible to be faithful to something that's in the past. It's not a betrayal to build something new when something old is finished.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“We can live a billion different ways from here, but there’s only one path behind us. That was never going to change.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“Honor the past without living in it.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“exact conversation with you. It’s just that he’s going to be on some other planet trying to figure out how to restart the human race, and I’m going to be here worrying about my taxes. [laughs]”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“some chances you take just because the possibilities are beautiful.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“The moment between when we went to sleep and when we opened our eyes was about five hundred million years.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“I know where we are. And I know when we are. And we’ve been thinking about this all wrong. We’re on Earth. This is Earth.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“In the end, the message he sent back was: Did you meet someone else? It took her ten minutes to respond. No, but I hope I will someday. I hope you will too. Who knows? Maybe it’ll even be us, when we’re both different people.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“The knot of grinding resentment at her abandonment of him. The ways he was relieved that it was over, and the ways that he wasn’t.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“We can only take comfort knowing that our ancestors are not dead, only elsewhere, brought to life anew from the same light that once fell here, and beginning again the great adventure that is our past.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“Expanse, which was adapted into an award-winning television series. Corey is the pen name of the writing duo of Daniel Abraham”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“The lines appeared at the corners of her mouth, two thin parentheses as if everything she said was going to be an aside.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“Moving matter across interstellar space has never made sense from an energy expenditure standpoint. And in that use case, suddenly duplication using slow light begins to make economic sense. There are other ways to manufacture things. But delivering and unfolding a package on an alien world light-years away in the galaxy? This is the only way to do it.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“The big challenge is that there’s a lot of chlorine dioxide too.” “Bleach planet. So no walks outside,” Elizabet said. “Not if you enjoy having lungs.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds