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61 " Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Pushing Ice
62 " You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?""Yes, stupid me, I forgot. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
63 " I thought we were better then this.""We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes. "
― Alastair Reynolds , On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children, #2)
64 " Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
65 " I think I’ve reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level, if that’s what you mean. "
66 " Peoples think I’s a harmless idiot,” he said. “They’s only half right. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Revenger (Revenger #1)
67 " Nothing endures, except nothing itself. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Doctor Who: Harvest of Time
68 " The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities. "
69 " Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster . . . but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive. "
70 " Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor. "
71 " Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience. ~"Spirey & the Queen "
― Alastair Reynolds , Zima Blue and Other Stories
72 " But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast. "
― Alastair Reynolds , House of Suns
73 " You look older, son.” “Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe. "
74 " That,’ Peregrine said, ‘is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were. "
75 " There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge from a black hole."~"Understanding Space & Time "
76 " You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism. "
77 " The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up. "
― Alastair Reynolds
78 " That's what happens when you've had great success in life—when you've achieved the one goal you always desired. You lose a sense of purpose. Your smallest anxieties fester and magnify. Your fears turn inward, and attach themselves to irrational concerns. "
― Alastair Reynolds , Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)
79 " Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A man once spent his entire life searching for a particular shade of blue that he remembered encountering in childhood. He began to despair of ever finding it, thinking he must have imagined that precise shade, that it could not possibly exist in nature. Then one day he chanced upon it. It was the colour of a beetle in a museum of natural history. He wept for joy.’- "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds "
80 " Then they'd be wrong. It's only our deeds that make us evil, Tanner; they're what define us, nothing else, not our intentions or feelings. But what are a few bad deeds compared to a life, especially the kinds of lives we can live now? "
― Alastair Reynolds , Chasm City