Quotes From "Leviathan Wakes" By James S.A. Corey

Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were. James S.A. Corey

Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of. James S.A. Corey

Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore. James S.A. Corey

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. James S.A. Corey

A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat. James S.A. Corey

It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again. James S.A. Corey

That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free. James S.A. Corey

Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss. James S.A. Corey

Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole. James S.A. Corey

Aw, you goddammed bastards! They're shootin' him while he's down! Son of a bitch! " The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, "Suck on this, asshole." The ship vibrated for half a second, then paused before continuing toward the lock." Point defense cannons?" Holden asked." Summary roadside justice, " Alex grunted back. James S.A. Corey

He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the way up. Back then he'd assumed it was just learned behavior, the body adapting so it could get enough rest in an environment that never really had downtime. Now he wondered if those vets found the constant noise preferable. A way to keep their lost shipmates away. They probably went home after their twenty and never slept again. James S.A. Corey

She'd been attacked. Just after she came to the Belt. She was seeing that it didn't happen twice."" Attacked, " Miller said, parsing the man's tone of voice. "Raped?""I didn't ask. James S.A. Corey