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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. They wanted to stay out of a fight. The quiet ones were figuring out how to win it.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Alex's experience of real family-of blood relations-was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    No, it wasn't. It was the scariest fucking answer to Fermi's paradox I can think of. Do you know why there aren't any Indians in your Old West analogy? Because they're already dead. The whatever-they-were that built all that got a head start and used their protomolecule gate builder to kill all the rest. And that's not even the scary part. The really frightening part is that something else came along, shot the first guys in the back of the head, and left their corpses scattered across the galaxy. The thing we should be asking is, who fired the magic bullet?"
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  4. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    We're not making any official statements, especially when James Holden's in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend.
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  5. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Well, mostly I'm a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante's killer? That's kind of awesome.
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  6. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made.
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  7. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go.
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  8. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?"
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  9. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired.
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  10. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general.
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  11. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.
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