# Quote — James S. A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

> Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter. Or at least not the way she’d thought they did.

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Book: [Persepolis Rising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising.md)
- Page: 14
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Persepolis_Rising_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/time-was-supposed

## More from this book

> “You’re not picking a fight with the things that made the protomolecule. You’re picking a fight with whatever killed them. Orders of magnitude above the things that were orders of magnitude above us. You’ve got to know this is going to escalate if we keep using these technologies.”
>
> “We were always going to keep using these technologies. That was inevitable the moment we opened the gates,” Duarte said. “If you’ve studied any history at all, you know that. Never in human history have we discovered something useful and then chosen not to use it.”

p. 548 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/youre-not-picking.md)

> The fight for survival made everything either resilient or forgotten.

p. 532 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/the-fight-for.md)

> He lifted the gun.
>
> “Wait!” Singh said. “Wait. Do you believe all that? About what killing me is supposed to achieve?”
>
> “I am an officer of the Laconian Empire, Governor Singh. I believe what I’m told to believe.”

p. 520 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/he-lifted-the.md)