“I worry that it’s me they’re really after.”

— Alastair Reynolds, book Blue Remembered Earth

“You don’t exist. At the risk of wounding your ego, not everyone in the known universe is obsessed with you and your secret history.”
Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 14 (p. 260)

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