Alastair Reynolds Quotes

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to eve...

It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he kne...

Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. ...

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exp...

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by en...

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of...

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any wor...

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was s...

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to a...

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

To see something marvellous with your own eyes - that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it...

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its ...

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away...

Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her,...

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a poi...

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them ...

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spo...

Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ...

Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, a...

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’‘We h...

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through t...

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a gli...

You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I h...

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once...

Still, it was vision, or at least vision’s idiot cousin.