- Sadavir Errinwright: You give a monkey a stick, inevitably he'll beat another monkey to death with it.
- Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper: Ah, military intelligence. Filing reports and hiding behind a desk, eh?
- Cotyar: For what it was worth, I spent plenty of time in the dirt. My IQ tested too high to be a Marine.
- Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper: And your morals tested low enough to be a spy. That's good training for politics.
- Chrisjen Avasarala: [having launched nervously into orbit] A child can leave earth without looking back, but not an old man. Jules-Pierre may be a titan of the system, but his life, his memories, are anchored to that rock. That is earth's real gravity.
- Jim Holden: Ready PGCs, fire control to me.
- Praxideke Meng: Why kill it? Such a base human instinct to destroy things we don't understand.
- Jim Holden: Don't talk down to me, plant guy!
- [last lines]
- Naomi Nagata: Looks like we're clear.
- Melissa Suputayaporn: [tearfully relieved] You did good today.