Alastair Reynolds - Khouri Quotes

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Are you sharpness personified?
Khouri poured herself a few final sips of coffee and then left the rest of it on the stove for when she got back. Coffee was her only vice, one acquired in her soldiering days on the Edge. The trick was to reach a knife-edge of alertness, but not be so buzzing that she could not point the weapon without shaking.
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level, if that's what you mean.

Alastair Reynolds
It's all in the fine print. You should read it sometime.
When I'm gripped by existential boredom, Khouri said, I might try it.

Alastair Reynolds
Haven't you ever heard of morale-building? Khouri had asked.
Heard of it, Volyova said. Don't happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?

Alastair Reynolds
Khouri did not need to be told that Hades was a neutron star, any more than she needed to be told that there was no such thing as a safe close encounter with one. You either kept away or you died; those were the rules, and there was no force in the universe capable of negating them. Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.

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