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“She’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.
But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.”

Alastair Reynolds book The Prefect

Source: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 18 (p. 290)

““It must be a real one-horse town.”
Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. “It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.””

Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 15 (p. 242)

Horse

“It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.”

Alastair Reynolds book Redemption Ark

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 15 (p. 265)

Problem , Time

“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.”

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 61).

Way , Time

“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation was also strangely liberating: if an individual human existence meant so little, if one’s actions were so cosmically irrelevant, then the notion of some absolute moral framework made about as much sense as the universal ether. Measured against the infinite, therefore, people were no more capable of meaningful sin—or meaningful good—than ants, or dust.
Worlds barely registered sin. Suns hardly deigned to notice it. On the scale of solar systems and galaxies, it meant nothing at all. It was like some obscure subatomic force that simply petered out on those scales.”

Alastair Reynolds book Absolution Gap

Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 6 (p. 84)

People , World , Feeling , Sense

“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.”

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 2 (p. 59).

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

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 316).

“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”

Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 19 (p. 325)

Girl

“Can I still wish you good luck?”

Alastair Reynolds book Redemption Ark

“You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.

Chapter 38 (p. 654)
Redemption Ark (2002)

Bad luck

“How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?”

Alastair Reynolds book Redemption Ark

“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)

“That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?”

Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City

“It might,” she said. “If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.”
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 479).

“Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?”

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

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?”
Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).

“How long have we been friends, Dan?”

Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space

“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”

Chapter 7 (p. 166).
Revelation Space (2000)

“All right, Marius—I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?”

Alastair Reynolds

“I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.”
A Spy in Europa (pp. 104-105)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?”

Alastair Reynolds book Diamond Dogs

“We won’t know until we try,” Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.

Turquoise Days, Chapter 2 (pp. 240-241)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)

Thinking

“It was easy to sound that confident; less easy to believe it in his heart. They had got this far did not give them an automatic guarantee of success. The world did not work like that. It took pleasure in punishing the cocksure.”

Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World

Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 24 (p. 455)

Confidence , Success , Heart , Pleasure

“Hopefully they’ll accept me for what I am, not what I was. That’s all we can ever hope for, isn’t it?”

Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World

Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 24 (p. 454)

Hope

“Do you think it means anything?”

Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World

“Probably not," Ricasso said, wiping his dust-smeared hands on his knees. “I’m all for looking for meaning in ancient texts. But now and then you have to just accept the fact that you’re dealing with so much religious gibberish.”

Chapter 22 (p. 413)
Terminal World (2010)

Thinking

“This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.”

Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World

Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 16 (p. 265)

Water

“And you do not think that this is possible?”

Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World

“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”

Chapter 12 (p. 188)
Terminal World (2010)

Depressing , Sad , Faith , Hope