# Quote — James S. A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

> “It would have worked,” she said. “If we’d cooperated, it would have worked.”
>
> “It would have been better.”
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> “I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are.”

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Book: [Leviathan Falls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls.md)
- Page: 374
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Leviathan_Falls_(2021)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/it-would-have

## More from this book

> Nothing humans can touch goes unmodified.

p. 510 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/nothing-humans-can.md)

> The dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies of childhood became the self-evident norms of adulthood.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/the-dysfunctions-and.md)

> “We knew that, though.”
>
> “We suspected it.”
>
> “Do we know it now?”
>
> “We suspect it harder,” Elvi said. “We’re scientists. We only know things until someone shows us we’re wrong.”

p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/we-knew-that.md)