James S.A. Corey quote: "She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia."

There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said....
JAMES S.A. COREY

And somehow, that changed everything about sex. The movements might all be the same, but the desire ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular indi...
JAMES S.A. COREY

The best governments in history have been kings and emperors,” Duarte said. “The worst ones too....
JAMES S.A. COREY

If this isn’t important, I will rip your throat open and piss down your lungs.
JAMES S.A. COREY

You know,” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

They loved scenes of righteous Godly vengeance on sinful mankind. They loved to show God’s chosen ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.
JAMES S.A. COREY

It wouldn’t be the first unfamiliar finger up his ass.
JAMES S.A. COREY

I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Get your nuts in your palms and head forward, boys.
JAMES S.A. COREY

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the tra...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Tilly screamed. Anna’s shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had some...
JAMES S.A. COREY

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is...
JAMES S.A. COREY

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
JAMES S.A. COREY

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property the...
JAMES S.A. COREY

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a li...
JAMES S.A. COREY

...This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule....
JAMES S.A. COREY

He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”...
JAMES S.A. COREY

[T]hat question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It’s meaningless.
JAMES S.A. COREY

Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness pla...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.
JAMES S.A. COREY

Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

...when the lights went out.
It wasn’t just the lights. So many things about his physical si...
JAMES S.A. COREY

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of p...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and s...
JAMES S.A. COREY

You know," he said, "you have a really weird relationship with treason.
JAMES S.A. COREY

All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocke...
JAMES S.A. COREY

Trashy people puke,” Tilly said. “Ladies are unwell.
JAMES S.A. COREY

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.
JAMES S.A. COREY

She tried to scream once, but with significant portions of her larynx already compromised, what she ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.
JAMES S.A. COREY

Once is never. Twice is always.
JAMES S.A. COREY

Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that...
JAMES S.A. COREY

I don’t kill children,” she said. “Not even when it’s the right thing to do.
JAMES S.A. COREY

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what...
JAMES S.A. COREY

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But ...
S.A. TAWKS

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by d...
S.A. TAWKS

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that tryi...
S.A. TAWKS

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the ...
S.A. TAWKS

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. TAWKS

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.
S.A. TAWKS

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really ...
S.A. TAWKS

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind o...
S.A. TAWKS

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated...
S.A. TAWKS

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.
S.A. TAWKS

There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.
S.A. TAWKS

Unscrewing the cap, Gabriel squeezed a bit of clear jelly onto his fingers and understood. Covering ...
S.A. REID

Gabriel shuddered with obvious pleasure; Joey, half out of his body with the sensation, pumped in an...
S.A. REID

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.
S.A. TAWKS

So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucki...
S.A. TAWKS

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high sch...
S.A. TAWKS

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
S.A. TAWKS

All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?
S.A. TAWKS

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
S.A. TAWKS

As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else t...
S.A. TAWKS

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch a...
S.A. TAWKS

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
S.A. TAWKS

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemin...
S.A. TAWKS

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you ...
S.A. TAWKS

He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a countr...
S.A. TAWKS

I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing ...
S.A. TAWKS

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road a...
S.A. TAWKS

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to tru...
S.A. TAWKS

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
S.A. TAWKS

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to en...
S.A. TAWKS

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.
S.A. TAWKS

Where's your sense of misadventure?
S.A. TAWKS

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.
S.A. TAWKS

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.
S.A. TAWKS

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.
S.A. TAWKS

By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate m...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the f...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creatio...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawr...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

It is fortunate that molecular synthesis also serves the utilitarian function of producing quantitie...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the Univer...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its im...
ELIAS JAMES COREY

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
COREY FORD

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out t...
COREY TAYLOR

The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.
COREY HAWKINS

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
IRWIN COREY

I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for 'Rainbow In The Dar...
COREY TAYLOR

I'm amazed at what UNH has done,
BRIAN COREY

I'd like to be on ESPN someday or maybe the next step is to go to a bigger school or the NFL, ... Bu...
BRIAN COREY

The fans are very, very dedicated,
BRIAN COREY

It's so interesting how a child gravitates to a certain type of creative expression.
COREY HART

We knew it was going to be a fight when Marvin got a personal foul. That's a rarity. But he held his...
COREY SIMON

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
COREY HART

I'm where I wanted to be. Not taking anything away from the Cleveland Browns ... but I'm a Bengal, a...
COREY DILLON

That's why it's always gonna be a slum. Paterson is the bastard child of New Jersey.
COREY ROUSE

This old fart can still get there. But I don't even care. As long as we win, I don't care where the ...
COREY DILLON

I'd seen him on the Internet and knew he was sixth in the state, I knew his name. I went out and did...
COREY TAYLOR

We weren't even ranked coming into the season, so we're trying to prove a point. We want to keep pro...
COREY BREWER

It's kind of funny. We're trying to get to the Final Four. What's the Sweet 16? That's not our goal....
COREY BREWER

It doesn't matter who scores on this team.
COREY BREWER

Everything went well. It was important to me because I wanted to test it [back] out in a game situat...
COREY MAGGETTE

We wanted to get to state so bad, and that's why the game was like [that]. It was tense out there.
COREY CLAITT

They almost burnt me with a Marlboro or something. They threw hot coffee on my leg. Or maybe it was ...
COREY DILLON

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicki...
COREY HAIM

The boys played an exceptional ballgame. We are a young team with only one senior and a lot of young...
COREY PARISH

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.
COREY TAYLOR

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.
COREY TAYLOR

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armage...
COREY TAYLOR

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you can...
COREY TAYLOR

We're going to roll and see what happens. I feel like Superman. I feel like I could go all day. But ...
COREY SIMON

Tonight was a great start for the defense. It's time for this defense to step up.
COREY SIMON

So often, our offense gets a lot of credit. They've done great things, but it's time for the defense...
COREY SIMON

We lay our hearts on the line every week. It doesn't hurt anybody more than it hurts us.
COREY SIMON

I have never been able to grow facial hair but if I could I would probably give it a good go.
COREY FLYNN

With security concerns what they are, it is not a good time to release a film with a terrorist in th...
COREY CALDWELL

She is a very dynamic player in the sense that she is able to perform at a high level at all those p...
COREY ROMANAK

I don't ever see that on film. I see the same guy. His last couple games -- that kind of speaks for ...
COREY CHAVOUS

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.
COREY BREWER

We are on the way to the Final Four.
COREY BREWER

Everybody wants to know if I was looking at the goal. To be honest, I really wasn't. But I threw it ...
COREY BREWER

Everybody was just wonderful to him. It doesn't matter where he goes. He's a likable guy.
CHRISTINE COREY

After that first game, we just turned it on and started hitting the ball. Almost everybody in the li...
COREY CATON

I really barely ever see anyone use a wooden stick. Almost all of them use composites.
COREY LESSARD

Coach continues to bring me in, and when I come in I'm going to do what I always do. I'm going to at...
COREY MAGGETTE

Who knows how it's going to be on Sunday? Wait till Sunday to see who's going to be the starter.
COREY WILLIAMS

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.
COREY HART

Victims are often reluctant to report a sexual assault for a number of reasons, such as fear of reta...
COREY COOK

I thought Andrew Turner, after a rocky first inning, settled down and kept us in the game.
COREY LEWIS

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t...
COREY TAYLOR

When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs a...
COREY HART

[Corey Simon would neither confirm nor deny a report that his agent, Roosevelt Barnes , had asked th...
COREY SIMON

MTSU brings a different style of play. They are taller than most teams we play so we have to adjust ...
COREY CARLIN

Hunter and John [Belushi] both shared a sense of possibility, and they seemed to have no limits. The...
COREY SEYMOUR

Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to se...
COREY KOSKIE

I just knew Cinderella was going home. Give her a kiss and say goodbye.
COREY BREWER

Momentum is everything to these kids. You see kids lose matches in the semifinals and not win anothe...
COREY KLINE

We could generate $10 million or $15 million a week in just CD money. When we first started, they we...
COREY JOHNSON

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes...
COREY TAYLOR

I like that I'm a Gemini. I just like the duality of it but I don't check my moon rising or anything...
COREY HART

Andy (Reid) and I, we talked and we talk outside of football. So when he called me up and said, 'Cor...
COREY SIMON

You never know who you're going to have at the audition. One year we had a young girl from Beachwood...
COREY CRAWFORD

I definitely thought about that and wanted to have a good showing. I still know a lot of people at C...
COREY PARKER

I believe the teams played to the best of their ability. They are all fine athletes.
COREY PARISH

This is not the direct result of one issue. We see it as a way to stay ahead as the competition incr...
COREY OAKLEY

At the Sonoma County Fair, we pride ourselves on being out in front. We are interested in using DNA ...
COREY OAKLEY

Basically, I just tried to let them know we were here and we were interested in having them. I told ...
COREY OAKLEY

When I needed him in the spot that I needed him, he was there.
COREY NAKATANI

Our goal is 48 points and no more than 48. The defensive end is always where that starts, and if we ...
COREY MURTAUGH

We came out in the second half firing and we just had to stick to what we knew. We found a way to do...
COREY MURTAUGH

It's nice for shows to have connections with the fans. It makes you closer and more involved in the ...
COREY MILLER

You have to learn from your mistakes.
COREY MEDEIROS

It culminated with what they want to promote with people helping in the community.
COREY MEDEIROS

You think you've got a guy down, and he throws it 40 yards across the field, and you have to run tha...
COREY MCKEON

I would love to do that for him. He's done so much for us, so it's the least we could for him. That'...
COREY MCADAM

They're an extremely strong team.
COREY MARKHAM

I don't think Indiana is a better team than us. They just executed better than us.
COREY MAGGETTE

I know it's hard for teams to have chemistry so early, but I think our chemistry level has been good...
COREY MAGGETTE

I've known Jacques for about a decade and we have wanted to collaborate for a long time. It's going ...
COREY MADDEN

Devon knows he didn't have one of his best days. It has to be tough for him, coming off the Watervil...
COREY LESSARD

It was really frustrating. Not so much that (the games) were so close. We started out (the trip) so ...
COREY KOSKIE

A line drive, a guy jumps for it, I don't see how you can give that an error.
COREY KOSKIE

It's the first time in my career that I've seen that. You're in your home stadium, you break up the ...
COREY KOSKIE

He is a spitfire. Last year we took him to state with us so he could see what it was like. He is so ...
COREY KLINE

I am a little disappointed. Some of these guys are here for the second time and thought they would j...
COREY KLINE

The fourth quarter, we were really strong and pulled out our delay game. We took care of the ball, b...
COREY JENKINS

It's all about heart. If you're willing to do it, and you're willing to sacrifice your body and put ...
COREY JACKSON

We lost a lot from last year. We have no leadership. We're not playing as a team.
COREY ISHIGO

We have to take the positive things we?ve learned from all the games we have played, use them to get...
COREY WEBSTER

Everybody is going to have to do more now. You hate to lose a guy like Will Peterson because he mean...
COREY WEBSTER

Anywhere it helps to be long, but you have to hit straight, too, ... The whole deal here is to keep ...
COREY PAVIN

They wore us down. They're a good team.
COREY THACKER

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a t...
COREY THACKER

Are you ready Singapore for the chaos?
COREY TAYLOR

I know they do it for a reason, I'm finally seeing that. And I think for some of the kids, it works.
COREY SUTTON

I thought he was joking.
COREY SMITH

It will be double, maybe even triple that this week.
COREY SMITH

Coach said he was happy for all of us who went 6-18 to get all the way here to this game.
COREY ROBINSON

Being off the field for the last couple of days because of the weather hurt us, but a win is a win.
COREY PINARD

We have to deal with the upfront costs, though.
COREY SCHULTZ

The thing about volleyball is if you don't have others on the court, you can't win. We don't have th...
COREY ROMANAK

I think, for the first time, it turned out well. Good crowd out here - it was a great game. We hope ...
COREY ROLLERSON

We stepped up our defense and stopped fouling. We've been a little sluggish, but we played a lot bet...
COREY PARISH

It is great because now Ridgefield will get the recognition. Ridgefield has had some great wrestlers...
COREY PAULISH

I was just trying my best to get to overtime. In overtime I just tried to get him off my wrists. I w...
COREY PAULISH

It'll be a little different for him to face some more advanced pitching. I'm sure he'll do fine.
COREY PATTERSON

The organization has been great and there's stuff I have to work on, ... I don't blame anybody. Ever...
COREY PATTERSON

We wanted it, and we came out on got it. This should put us on the map.
COREY CAFFERATA

It's all right. I'll get motivated in college.
COREY BROWN

Coming off a 7-9 record last season, we thought this year we were at least going to win 10 games. No...
COREY BRADFORD

The polls this early are still being worked out. It's hard to tell who is actually faster than who, ...
COREY BOSWORTH

If you play with a guy for seven or eight years, you know his tendencies. You know what he's going t...
COREY BOON

Some of the plays we ran (in high school) were plays we'd been running for eight years.
COREY BOON

The idea is that since cancer never sleeps, the fight against cancer never sleeps.
COREY HULSE

I think anyone who has the internet loves it. You can just order it online and roll right out of bed...
COREY HOLMES

They shouldn't have scored any runs in that (fourth) inning. That did us in.
COREY HELD

I knew that if we lost today it would be KG's and Shaun's last game. I know it's really emotional fo...
COREY HASSAN

It feels great, especially against Vermont. I know it's a pretty big rivalry, so I'm glad we got the...
COREY HASSAN

We are all so excited about it, and we are really proud of her. She really is the best coach and def...
COREY HARTUNG

It was fun to see old friends.
COREY HARTUNG

She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.

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