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

> “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.”

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Book: [Leviathan Wakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes.md)
- Page: 437
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Leviathan_Wakes_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/stop-holden-said

## More from this book

> 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.
>
> 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)