- Sec-Gen Gillis: Why didn't you ever run for office?
- Chrisjen Avasarala: I like getting shit done. And I like to keep my head attached to my neck.
- Sec-Gen Gillis: You father was smart. You're smarter.
- Cortazar: [to Amos] You want to be that real boy again. To feel how you felt before the world broke you. The safety of your mother's embrace. But you cauterized all that in order to survive. You don't want that back again. Stomp out those last embers and you'll be free of it. We are about to rewrite that entire story of humanity. And, if you like, you can be a part of that, too. I can help you. I know how.
- Camina Drummer: [to Dawes] You've been on Ceres too long, eh? You forget how to be a good rock hopper. You're constipated, you suck a stone to get things moving. If it's the other problem, you shove that rock up your ass.
- Anderson Dawes: The truth is It's never what you expect it to be, eh?
- Jim Holden: Mmm. You mean, like, all Earthers aren't scumbags? And some Belters are just full of shit?