Anderson Dawes quotes from The Expanse

Anderson Dawes

Give the Martians their water! Milowda na animals. You have every right to be angry. You should be angry. But if we act like animals, we only justify their belief that we are. Gif im fo imalowda xitim. Treat them the way they should treat us.

Anderson Dawes

Fred Johnson. We have traveled far together, my beratna, but this is where we must part ways. Ever since I found you, broken, looking for redemption under a Belter knife, I have tried to teach you the Belter way. I have failed. You told us that when you destroyed Protogen, the Earth corp responsible for killing so many of our brothers and sisters on Eros, that you destroyed all its secrets as well. There was nothing left for us to fear. But instead, you preserved what you could of this terrible new weapon, and took it back to Tycho with you, keeping those secrets for yourself, no doubt believing that when the time comes, as it surely must, you and you alone, would decide when to use the weapon to defend the Belt. Now, I believe you have the Belt ere kori. And we have taken to you as a brother. But this? This is the Earther in you still. We do not want to live under anyone's boot, Fred Johnson, asilik towchu! Even a friendly one, afraid that if we disobey, we will have our air cut off, our water rationed, be spaced, or be herded into chambers to be used like animals. This is the way it has been until now. No more. I have stolen your secret, Fred Johnson. And I am giving it to the Belt.

Anderson Dawes

How much are they paying you to find her? I'm not judging, I'm just curious to know what your rate is, in case I need you to suit up for a different side.

Joe Miller

What side would that be?

Anderson Dawes

An Earth Corp may pay your salary, but you were born here. Lived your whole life on Ceres. I think that under that ridiculous hat there's a Belter yearning to find his way home.

Joe Miller

Patron saint of lost causes. I'm all choked up.

Anderson Dawes

Have I answered all your questions, Detective?

Joe Miller

You haven't answered any of my questions. You took a young, naive, rich girl - with daddy issues -

Anderson Dawes

- stop -

Joe Miller

- and got inside her head -

Anderson Dawes

Stop. Now I'm getting choked up.

Joe Miller

You took an innocent kid and you forced her to do your dirty work.

Anderson Dawes

No! She came to me. Asked me to help her. She knew what she was doing. She was willing to make a sacrifice for us. It's more than you.

Joe Miller

She trusted you, she put herself in your hands 'cause she couldn't see the blood on 'em. Just like your sister. Isn't that right? Wasn't she like 15 when you let her die out on the Belt? Sure. It's part of the legend you like to leave out.

Anderson Dawes

Would you like me to tell you the real story?

Joe Miller

I'm sure you've told so many lies about it you don't even remember what happened.

Joe Miller

So, you killed her.

Anderson Dawes

And that makes me a monster. There was no scrip to bury her, so I laid her to rest in a beautiful bauxite tunnel that we discovered together. Do you know it is possible to cry so hard that your tears turn to blood? And living with this pain, I came to realize that I have millions of brothers and sisters in the Belt. I even count you among them. As I did Julie, an Earther.

Joe Miller

So, everybody dies for the cause, except for you.

Anderson Dawes

Now I'll tell you the truth about Julie.

Joe Miller

Just tell me if she's alive.

Anderson Dawes

If she was here right now, she'd spit in your face. You're everything she despised. A Belter who preys on his own kind. Welwala... Die as you lived.

Dawes

Assistant Director of Operations. You've come a long way since the loading docks on Ceres. Eh, Mali?

You don't get to call me that anymore, Pampaw.

Dawes

From what people tell me, you're the one really running things around here. We need you back home. It's hard to find good people.

I prefer it here.

Dawes

This floating tin can? I don't know if it's the aching bones or the constipation I miss more.

You been on Ceres too long, eh? You forget how to be a good rock hopper. You're constipated, you stuck a stone to get thing moving. If it's the other problem, you shove that rock up your ass.

Dawes

Do you know how old you are?

Nineteen, I think. Earther years.

Dawes

Even our sense of time comes from them. The time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis... The Earth to go once around the Sun. On Jupiter, you'd be celebrating your first birthday. It's hard to feel we matter out here, isn't it? The distances are so vast. It's hard to believe that we can make a difference.