# Leviathan Wakes

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Quotes: 29
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes

## Quotes

> If Fred couldn’t build himself a peace treaty, 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?

p. 467 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/if-fred-couldnt.md)

> And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. Of the dead. The were dancing to it in the low-rent clubs. What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless.
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> But no. That wasn’t fair. Diogo was a good kid. He was just naive. The universe would take care of that, given a little time.

p. 445 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/and-now-they.md)

> That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.

p. 560 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/that-man-could.md)

> Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

p. 457 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/miller-was-staring.md)

> He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren’t anyone’s strong suit.

p. 504 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/he-cut-the.md)

> It was as easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.

p. 504 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/it-was-as-easy.md)

> He considered recording it. His suit would be able to make a simple visual file and stream the data out in real time. But no. This was his moment. His and Julia’s. The rest of humanity could guess what it had been like if they cared.

p. 488 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/he-considered-recording.md)

> Never knew if you had any luck left unless you pushed it.

p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/never-knew-if-you.md)

> He probed himself like a doctor searching for inflammation. Did it hurt here? Did he feel the loss there?
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> He didn’t. There was only a sense of relief so profound it approached giddiness.

p. 226 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/he-probed-himself.md)

> The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/the-beautiful-thing.md)

> If things got out of hand, it would mean six or seven million dead people and the end of everything Miller had ever known.
>
> Odd that it should feel almost like relief.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/if-things-got.md)

> “Too many dots,” Miller said. “Not enough lines.”

p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/too-many-dots.md)

> All bluster, no balls.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/all-bluster-no-balls.md)

> Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/say-what-you.md)

> It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/it-was-a-real.md)

> He couldn’t fix the cancer of war, couldn’t even slow down the spread, but at least he could admit it was happening.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/he-couldnt-fix.md)

> “There’s a right thing to do,” Holden said.
>
> “You don’t have a right thing, friend,” Miller said. “You’ve got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.”

p. 363 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/theres-a-right.md)

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

p. 427 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/liquor-doesnt-make.md)

> She didn’t care. Not caring was how she got through the day.

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/she-didnt-care.md)

> “See, this is why I can’t ever be in command,” she said.
>
> “Don’t like making tough calls with incomplete information?”
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> “More I’m not suicidally irresponsible,” she replied.

p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/see-this-is-why.md)

> “We regret the necessity of this action,” she said to everyone everywhere. “But in the cause of freedom, there can be no compromise.”
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> That’s what it’s come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we’ll be free.

p. 364 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/we-regret-the.md)

> Holden decided that he was okay with not feeling any remorse for them. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.

p. 412 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/holden-decided-that.md)

> It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.

p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/its-the-problem.md)

> There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?

p. 379 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/there-was-life.md)

> The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of ’em.

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/the-enlisted-guys.md)

> When, Miller wondered, does someone stop being human? There had to be a moment, some decision that you made and before it, you were one person, and after it, someone else...If he’d seen it in someone else—Muss, Havelock, Sematimba—he wouldn’t have taken more than a minute to realize they’d gone off the rails. Since it was him, he had taken longer to notice. But Holden was right. Somewhere along the line, he’d lost himself.

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/when-miller-wondered.md)

> If Miller had ever been called upon to describe her, the phrase deceptive coloration would have figured in.

p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/if-miller-had.md)

> “Stop,” Holden said. “I don’t care. I don’t want to hear any more of your stories about how being a cop makes you wiser and deeper and able to face the truth about humanity. As far as I can tell, all it did was break you. Okay?”
>
> “Yeah, okay.”
>
> “Dresden and his Protogen buddies thought they could choose who lives and who dies. That sound familiar? And don’t tell me it’s different this time, because everyone says that, every time. And it’s not.”

p. 437 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/stop-holden-said.md)

> This was the kind of man who’d killed Julie, Miller thought. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been.

p. 281 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/this-was-the.md)