# James S. A. Corey - Quotes: 119 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.json ## Books - [Cibola Burn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/cibola-burn.md) — 11 quotes - [Leviathan Falls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls.md) — 18 quotes - [Leviathan Wakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes.md) — 10 quotes - [Livesuit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/livesuit.md) — 1 quote - [Nemesis Games](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/nemesis-games.md) — 32 quotes - [Persepolis Rising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising.md) — 29 quotes - [The Mercy of Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods.md) — 18 quotes ## Recently added quotes > He had a brief but vivid memory of being seven years old at his grandmother’s vineyard in Nortcoor, looking into the night sky and seeing it for the first time as infinity towering above him like God, only worse because it was real. p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/he-had-a-brief.md) Topics: [the universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe.md), [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md) > Nothing humans can touch goes unmodified. p. 510 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/nothing-humans-can.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md) > Stress, power, love. They didn’t change people, but they revealed people as who they were. p. 331 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/stress-power-love.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md) > “We never had a chance,” he said. “Look at all this. We never stood a chance against this.” > > “We did not,” Else agreed. “Too bad we didn’t know.” > > “Knowing wouldn’t have mattered.”… > > “We’d have fought anyway,” he said, thinking of Ostencour and his improvised knife. Synnia wrestling down the guard. “It’s what we do.” > > “I don’t know if that idea is stupid or noble,” Else said. > > “Human,” Dafyd said. “It’s just human. We don’t stop just because there’s no hope.” > > Else nodded, stopped with her brow furrowed. A tear dropped from her eye unnoticed, and she shrugged. “There's always hope for something. Just not always…not always what we want.” p. 136 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/we-never-had.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md) > What is lost is lost, and why regret a dream I had when I was young just because the universe woke me from it? p. 316 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/what-is-lost.md) Topics: [dreams and aspirations](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations.md), [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md) > Small moments, unnoticed at the time, change the fate of empires. p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/small-moments-unnoticed.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md) > He hadn’t thought about it. It was a crisis, and in a crisis you did what needed doing. Stopping to think was a short path to panic. He didn’t have time for that. p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/he-hadnt-thought.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [choices](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/choices.md) > My dad used to say that anyone who believes in a fair fight has never been in a fight. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/livesuit/my-dad-used.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md) > She remembered one of her therapists saying Anger is pain in a party mask. It had seemed wise at the time. She wasn’t sure if she agreed with it anymore. Maybe anger was a scab over a wound, or maybe it was what happened when the universe spun you so hard that you lost everything. Or maybe it was just a thing that welled up in you when you found yourself lying sleepless in the dark of a prison work camp with no idea what your future might be or if your past mattered. p. 311 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/she-remembered-one.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md) > In a world without privacy, etiquette had to suffice. p. 359 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/in-a-world.md) Topics: [privacy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/privacy.md) > I’m drunk. Hypocrisy is the natural companion of beer. p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/im-drunk-hypocrisy.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md) > Why me? is not something the universe ever answers. p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/why-me-is-not.md) Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md)