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Book: Tiamat's Wrath
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
In a fight like this, unless you're willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
And that's the point I keep trying to make with her, my friend. In a fight like this, unless you're willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
That's the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn't. That's how you find out it's too late.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don't ask questions.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
But all the stories about the devil making a deal and then cheating missed the point. The real horror was that once the bargain was struck, the devil didn't cheat. He gave you exactly and explicitly all that had been promised. And the price was your soul.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
There was a woman I knew. Long time. She used to say you can't judge anyone by what they say. You have to watch what they do." "She said that." "I recognize the irony.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn't matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
It was, Elvi thought, like finding a sea turtle who thoroughly understood Godel's incompleteness theorem, but didn't have any sea-turtley application for it.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
That was what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That'd be enough.
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
Chapter Five: ElviA few decades earlier and about two hundred thousand trillion kilometers from where she currently sat, a tiny node of active protomolecule in a biological matrix had entered the orbit of a planet called Ilus, hitchhiking on the gunship Rocinante.As the uncanny semisentient intelligence of the protomolecule tried to make contact with other nodes in the gate builders' long-dead empire, it woke up mechanisms that had been dormant for millions-or even billions-of years. The end result had been an ancient factory returning to life, a massive robot attack, the melting of one artificial moon, and the detonation of a power plant that nearly cracked the planet in two.All in all, a really shitty experience.So when Elvi's team took the catalyst out of isolation in unexplored systems to do a similar if slightly better-controlled reaching out to the artifacts and remains {..} Tiamat's Wrath
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James S.A. Corey _ Tiamat's Wrath
It gets better, though. Right?" "Sometimes. Sometimes it's just one shit sandwich after another.
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