““Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?” I said, slipping him a note.
“Yeah,” the man said, laughing quietly. “But I’m not it.””

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Chasm City

Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 39 (p. 634).

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