“ Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die. Alastair Reynolds
“ For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by t… Alastair Reynolds
“ You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse. Alastair Reynolds
“ You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the bor… Alastair Reynolds
“ There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that. Alastair Reynolds
“ We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been Alastair Reynolds
“ Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the… Alastair Reynolds
“ Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever. Alastair Reynolds
“ That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like… Alastair Reynolds
“ Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over. Alastair Reynolds
“ At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced th… Alastair Reynolds
“ But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You’ll carry for it for ever,… Alastair Reynolds
“ 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. Alastair Reynolds
