Memory's Legion Quotes

“We’re spending our whole lives together, so we need to be really gentle.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“We’re at the start of something here. We can’t let it slide. If it’s okay now, it’s okay forever. You plug a leak when it’s small, or you suffer when it’s big.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“You’re angry.” “No, sweetie. I’m not angry,” she said gently. “Angry is yelling. This is resentful, and it’s because you’re cutting me out from the fun parts. Really, I look at you, and see the happiness and the excitement, and I want to be part of that. I want to jump up and down and wave my arms and talk about how great it all is. But that money was our safety net. You’re ignoring the fact that you spent our safety net, and if we both ignore it, the first time something unexpected comes up, we’re screwed. I love our life, so now I have to be the one who cares and disapproves and doesn’t get to be excited. You’re making me the grown-up. I don’t want to be the grown-up. I want us both to be grown-ups, so that when we do something like this, we both get to be kids.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“Doing the right thing has to be enough in itself. It’s not about getting the pat on the head.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“Effort in Discipline. Effortless in Virtue”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“People are scared and they’re hurting, yeah? And some big man comes along, and he seems confident. He looks sure of himself. All the things that are eating at your heart, they aren’t eating at his. And yeah, he gets a team. Everyone falls in line behind him, and bad things happen. The worst things.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“He was always proud of her when she said that. A liberal arts background was a hard thing to overcome, but she was doing great.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“Technical knowledge advances. The organism stays the same.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“It had a middle-aged star and two planets in the goldilocks zone,”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“My worth had been determined from without, by how I imagined that I appeared to others.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“anticipated my eventual overdose like a zealot looking forward to Armageddon.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“The only right you have with anyone in this life is the right to walk away.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“It’s the basic problem with religion, be it Jesus or Vishnu or God Emperors. Ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy.” “I don’t—” Biryar started.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“With every new insight in the long, unbroken stretch of consciousness that predates even humanity, a first moment comes. For an hour or a day or a lifetime, something new has come into the world.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“First. Fastest. Furthest.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“There’s a line Daniel likes from the gnostic Gospel of Thomas: If you bring forth that which is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. That idea and this story have something to say to each other.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“the prophet can lead people to the Holy Land, but cannot enter it himself.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“He stared out at all of them like an actor who’d just forgotten the St. Crispin’s Day speech. “Get ready.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“and he wore a thin mustache like it was a joke he was in on.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“The autodoc chimed again. Dresden looked at it and smiled. “Great. So tell me only the good things you remember about your mother.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“Moving a little fast there, Sol.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

“Great. So tell me only the good things you remember about your mother.”
― James S.A. Corey, Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection