Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book 4)

Once is never. Twice is always.

epigram

Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it’s all an enemy plot, at least there’s someone calling the shots.”

That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.

From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.

All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again.