Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)

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

quixotic.

the OPA would never win against the discipline and unity of an inner planet navy. But they would also never lose. War without end. Well, what was history if not that? And how would having the stars change anything?

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.

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

obsequiousness

Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy. The blue was nice, though.

“My name is James Holden,” he said, “and my ship, the Canterbury, was just destroyed by a warship with stealth technology and what appear to be parts stamped with Martian navy serial numbers. Data stream to follow.”

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