Alastair Reynolds Short Quotes

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For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.

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Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

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Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

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You can hardly blame them.
Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can't.

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She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.

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I don't like this at all, Hegazi said.
Believe me, Sylveste said, you're about to like it a lot less.

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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.

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The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

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How long have we been friends, Dan?
I wouldn't exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.

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Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

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She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.

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You look older, son.
Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.

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As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

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It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

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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.

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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

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The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.

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It's the people who don't worry—those who never have any doubts that what they're doing is good and right—they're the ones that cause the problems.

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Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

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I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

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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?

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