The greatest gift any true Belter could wish for is to die fighting for the cause.
Show your strength, but then show them a smile, and most will give you what you want.
Peace in our time? All it took was everybody about to die.
It’s better to go down swinging than rolling over.
Individuals can be divided and conquered, but symbols… Symbols endure.
Float to the top or sink to the bottom. Everything in the middle is the churn.[quoting Lydia]
Every s****y thing we do makes the next one that much easier, doesn’t it?[to Jim]
Age changes you in ways you don’t expect.
You must always have a knife in the darkness.
You let nostalgia trick you, and you’ll regret it badly.
You just have to believe that what you’re doing really matters, and then the fear can’t control you.
You either some kind of genius, Mr. Holden, or you the luckiest dip**** in the solar system.