“I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Redemption Ark

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 29 (p. 540)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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