““I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.”
“Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.””

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Redemption Ark

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 33 (p. 611)

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