“Maybe it’s not as bad as she fears. Old people always think the world is going to ruin. It’s their job. Maybe they’re right, Floyd replied.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 9 (p. 138)

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