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“Naomi: I want people to know about Miller. He was a good man.

Johnson: He was a pain-in-the-ass, suicidal ex-cop...who got the job done.”
— Naomi Nagata, The Expanse, Season 2: Paradigm Shift
Tagged: Good Cop, pain in the ass, Good Man, Suicidal
“As long as we’re living and breathing, there’s more we can do. We just have to be strong enough.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 2: Pyre
Tagged: Living, breathing, Strong, strength, Inspirational, Change
“Cold war is a bloodless war. Mutual distrust and complete co-dependence.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 1: The Big Empty
Tagged: War, Cold War, Bloodless, Distrust, Co-Dependence, Conflict, tension
“Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 2: The Seventh Man
Tagged: Good and Bad, Confusion, Human Nature, Distraction, Ironic, Contradiction
“Hate is a burden. You don’t have to carry it with you.”
— Reverend Doctor Anna Volovodov, The Expanse, Season 3: Abaddon's Gate
Tagged: Hate, Burden, Bitterness, Wisdom, Advice
“I need you to remind me of who I am so I can come back.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 2: Pyre
Tagged: reminder, Identity, Return, Desperate, Sad
“I fix ships, not people.”
— Naomi Nagata, The Expanse, Season 1: Back to the Butcher
Tagged: Fix, People, Ships, save, Sassy, Snarky
“I need you to know, whatever happens, wherever you go, you’re not gonna do it alone.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 2: Home
Tagged: Alone, Friendship, Partner, Partnership, Together, Inspirational
“I’m gonna count to one. One.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Critical Mass
Tagged: Sassy, Snarky, Warning, Threat, joke
“In this world that we live in, in order to survive, you have to pick a side.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 2: Paradigm Shift
Tagged: Survival, Wisdom, Pick a Side, The World
“It’s way cheaper for the company to settle up with a few widows than to overhaul this old barge.”
— Jim Holden, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Metaphor, Cheaper, company, big business, Windows, Overhaul
“No risk, no reward.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 3: Dandelion Sky
Tagged: Risk, Reward, Goals, Journey, Wisdom, Inspirational, Advice
“Optimism is for assholes and Earthers.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Leviathan Wakes
Tagged: Optimism, Assholes, Cursing, swearing, explicit, Earth, humans, humanity, Aliens
“None of us can change the things we’ve done. But we can all change what we do next.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: Critical Mass
Tagged: The Past, Regret, Change, The future, Wisdom, Truth, Advice
“People don’t work long range freight because they love it at home.”
— Naomi Nagata, The Expanse, Season 1: Remember the Cant
Tagged: Freight, Home, Work, Long Range
“Pick all the pockets you want, roll drunks, but when you mess with the water, that’s when you’re going down.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: The Big Empty
Tagged: criminal, Pickpocket, Drunk, Intoxicated, Water, downfall, dark, Warning, Threat
“Sometimes you need to exert pressure where it’s most effective, especially in times of war.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 3: IFF
Tagged: War, pressure, Conflict, Battle, Effective, Plot, plan, strategy
“Usually, when a man is about to lose everything, he realizes what mattered to him most. He sees it clearly for the first time.”
— Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, Season 1: Windmills
Tagged: realization, Matters, Clarity, Cares, Importance, Loss
“When losers seek peace, they look even weaker.”
— Sadavir Errinwright, The Expanse, Season 2: The Seventh Man
Tagged: losers, Peace, Weak, Weakness, Conflict
“The way I see it, there’s only three kinds of people in this world. Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.”
— Amos Burton, The Expanse, Season 2: Paradigm Shift
Tagged: People, humanity, Protect, follow, Bad, Types, Categories
“The history of organized religion isn’t exactly strife-free.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: History, Religion, Organized Religion, Strife, Conflict
“Watch your eyes. People get killed over a wrong look around here.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Eyes, killed, look, Careful, cautious, Warning, Threat
“When people don’t tell the truth, it always ends badly.”
— Chrisjen Avasarala, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Lie, Liar, Truth, Consequences, Wisdom
“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”
— Chrisjen Avasarala, The Expanse, Season 2: The Monster and the Rocket
Tagged: Family, Conflict, Parents, kids, Children, Childhood, Crisis, Loyalty, Divorce
“You let nostalgia trick you, and you’ll regret it badly.”
— Commander Klaes Ashford, The Expanse, Season 3: Intransigence
Tagged: Trick, Nostalgia, Regret, Yearning, remember, Fool
“You either some kind of genius, Mr. Holden, or you the luckiest dipshit in the solar system.”
— Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, The Expanse, Season 1: Rock Bottom
Tagged: swearing, Cursing, Dipshit, Luck, Genius, The Solar System
“The only things Earthers care about is government handouts. Free food, free water, free drugs so that you can forget the aimless lives you lead. You’re short-sighted and selfish, and it will destroy you.”
— Lopez, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Government, Earth, Lazy, Free, Handouts, Drugs, Short-Sighted, Selfish, humans, Destroy, Destruction
“Whoever they are, and whatever they’ve come to do, it’s just become a suicide mission. They started this fight, and we’re going to finish it.”
— Captain Theresa Yao, The Expanse, Season 1: CQB
Tagged: Suicide, Suicide Mission, Fight, Violence, violent, Battle
“No laws in Ceres. Just cops.”
— Detective Josephus Miller, The Expanse, Season 1: Dulcinea
Tagged: Cops, Laws, Law, rule, Corrupt, Lawless
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