Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)

when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.

obsequiousness

Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”

quixotic.

“What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?” Amos said. “Give ’em a break. It’s their first.”

She wore her uniform casually, her hair down around her shoulders in violation of corporate regulations. If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.

Miller had known a lot of victims, and he put them into three categories. First there were the ones who pretended nothing had happened, or that whatever it was didn’t really matter. That was well over half the people he talked to. Then there were the professionals, people who took their victimization as permission to act out any way they saw fit. T

She was grinning like the universe had given her a kiss.

The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. He liked it that way.