Alastair Reynolds citations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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)

“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)

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

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).

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

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

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

“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)

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

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

“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)

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

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

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

Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 11 (p. 177)

“Yes,” the glass man said, “that’s rather the point. There’s going to have to be a lot more trust from this time forward. Why don’t we start as we mean to go on?”

Chapter 41 (p. 563)
House of Suns (2008)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 41 (p. 558)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (pp. 516-517)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (p. 509)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 38 (pp. 501-502)

Introduction to Part 8 (pp. 485-486)
House of Suns (2008)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 19 (pp. 307-308)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 19 (p. 307)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 152)