& .Ë Â Â Â the expanse prompts.   ( this is an assortment from all seasons, including season six trailers, from many characters and is mostly focused on the themes of war, politics, morality, humanity & all that jazz. feel free to change pronouns if needed.  )
â  a kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what  â
â Â everyone leaves unfinished business. thatâs what dying is. Â â
â Â the sides change sometimes. what we think weâre fighting for. who we tell ourselves are the good people. but it just seems we canât ever stop fighting war after war after war. itâs part of being human. an ugly part, but i donât think it will ever change. Â â
â  no weapon ever brings peace. â
â  iâm never going to like what you did, but i canât hate you for doing what you thought was right. â
â  i think, â[her] father was a terrible person,â but a lot of people have terrible parents. and then i think, â[she]âs clearly damaged person,â but then, who isnât? so iâm down to, âmaybe [she] has a brain tumor.â do you have a brain tumor? â
â  hate is a burden. you donât have to carry it with you  â
â  us and them. how many of us⊠how many of them ?  â
â Â youâre either some kind of genius or youâre the luckiest dipshit in the solar system. Â â
â Â the war does not end when people put down their guns; it ends when they reconcile. until then, the war has only paused. Â â
â  you just have to believe that what youâre doing really matters, and then the fear canât control you.  â
â  donât worry about what i want, worry about what i am due.  â
â Â walking away is the only choice anyone ever has. Â Â â
â  and heâs building it on a river of blood, with your help !   â
â Â the thing about civilization is, it keeps you civil. get rid of one; you canât count on the other. Â â
â  if we decided to include everyone in our tribe without demanding that they prove we need them, maybe people wouldnât have thrown rocks at us in the first place.  â
â  as long as weâre living and breathing, thereâs more we can do. we just have to be strong enough.  â
â  maybe this war was inevitable, maybe there was no way to avoid it. the best you can hope for is that itâs justified.  â
â  good and bad, donât get distracted by that. it will just confuse you. good men do bad things and bad men do things believing itâs for the good of all mankind.  â
â  i didnât kill [him] because he was crazy. i killed [him] because he was making sense.  â
â  you give a monkey a stick, inevitably heâll beat another monkey to death with it.  â
â  the way i see it, thereâs only three kinds of people in this world. bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.  â
â  truth is truth. how you deal with it is up to you. â
â  the hardest part of this game is figuring out who the enemy really is.  â
â  every shitty thing we do makes the next one that much easier, doesnât it?  â
â  individuals can be divided and conquered, but symbols⊠symbols endure.  â
â  there are ways that you can live a good life, without being a good person.  â
â  stars are better off without us.  â
â  guilt is like salt. you put a little on, and it hides all the bitterness.  â
â  donât decide for them. tell them the truth and let them decide for themselves.  â
â  i never loved you because you were fighters, i loved you because you were builders. â
â  a child who wonât grow up turns into a fool. âÂ
â  you must always have a knife in the darkness.  â
â  violence is indiscriminate. if you use it as a tool, it will do more than just kill your enemies. sometimes it will kill the ones you love most.  â
â  no matter how traumatic the loss is, you only have so much emotional stamina. even grief can get used up.  â
â  everything you do is corrupt, and i canât stand to be part of it.  â
â  if you want to die, i canât stop you. but there is a path from where you are to where i am. all we did was buy you a little time. you decide what you want to do with it.  â
â  i need you to know, whatever happens, wherever you go, youâre not gonna do it alone.  â
â  we did not choose this, but this is our fight now. â
â  see, hereâs the thing. i was terrified for you, i didnât know why. and now i do, you will do anything to win. i wonât play with you, ever again.  â
â  [she] trusted you, [she] put [her]self in your hands âcause [she] couldnât see the blood on âem.  â
â  if we get out of this, we have to find a way to understand each other, to explain why we made the choices that we did. it is the only way that we can let go of the hate.  â
â  but thereâs only one thing that i need to tell you and itâs the simplest thing. but itâs the hardest thing to remember. listen to your heart. no matter what. itâll always be the right call.  â
â  war is an inherently unstable interaction of three things: intense emotion, politics and luck.  â
â  in the end, the only thing that matters is fighting for whoâs covering your back.  â
â  many fought for us to get here. many died. we have lost people we loved, and have suffered. we would be justified to seek vengeance. but instead, we will choose peace. we must choose peace.  â
â  when people donât tell the truth, it always ends badly.  â
â Â how much shit do i have to eat before you treat me with some respect ? Â Â â
â  what i want to know now is, are we - i mean humanity - are we part of that plan? â
â  weâre on the brink right now because we keep reacting to things we donât understand. weâre scared, weâre hurt, and weâre reaching for violence cause we canât figure out what to do. just this once, canât we try something else? âÂ
â  i know he wouldnât die for you, but he would let you die for him.  â
â  a parent you never hear from exists in a quantum state, both dead and alive, until you check up on them and the act of observing makes one of the two states true.  â
â  we were already at war. you just couldnât see it because they were killing us slow.  â
â  i have killed but Iâm not a killer, because a killer is a monster and monsters arenât afraid.  â
â  killing people doesnât mean youâre strong.  â
â  now the only dream i have for you is that someday, you will regret all the things youâve already done.  â
â  weâre wounded, broken, trying desperately to keep ourselves going by pretending weâre not.   â
â  people come into our lives and they go out. families change. it can be hard and sad, but we bear it, as long as we donât shut ourselves off from the new, wonderful things that comeâand i know there will be more wonderful things for you.  â