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Alastair Reynolds Quotes

born 1966 United Kingdom

Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author.

United Kingdom
Novelists
Science fiction authors
Short story writers

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183 quotes

Oh, I’m not perfect—not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.

Poseidon's Wake (2015)

There’s a lot here we don’t understand. Adding one more thing to the list doesn’t strike me as the worst crime imaginable.

Pushing Ice (2005)

Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.

Century Rain (2004)

“Are you impressed?” Goma dared ask.
“I don’t really do impressed. But consider yourselves the recipients of grudging approval.”

Poseidon's Wake (2015)

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I’m a politician.

Pushing Ice (2005)

Loosen up. I need reverence like I need a skateboard.

Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006)

The air crackled with rivalry and the potential for swift backstabbing.
Geoffrey hadn’t sensed anything like it since his last academic conference.

Blue Remembered Earth (2012)

The sense of squandered possibility, of better paths now lost to them all, filled him with a sudden rising sadness. He wondered if it was too late to make something better of their world.

Poseidon's Wake (2015)

“Now you’re scaring me.”
“If you were not scared, you don’t understand the situation.”

Poseidon's Wake (2015)

I felt a terrible sadness open inside me, a void through which the winds from the end of the universe were blowing.

House of Suns (2008)

The problem was, although I was as certain as I could be that I was right, I could offer nothing to bolster my arguments.

House of Suns (2008)

I had work to be getting on with. I’ve always had work to be getting on with. It’s what the universe was put there for: to give me things to do.

On the Steel Breeze (2013)

Welcome to politics, Doctor. We don’t get to pick our allies. The best we can hope for is that we don’t despise them quite as much as our enemies.

Terminal World (2010)

Civilisations beyond number had risen from obscurity, considering themselves masters of all creation, before fading back into the footnotes of history.

House of Suns (2008)

War does strange things to truth.

Galactic North (2006)

The one thing I never counted on was having luck on my side.
It was generally simpler that way.

Chasm City (2001)

“How long have we been friends, Dan?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”

Revelation Space (2000)

Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.

On the Steel Breeze (2013)

Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.

Absolution Gap (2003)

All her concerns, all her fears, began to feel trifling. It was just a trick of perspective, really, seeing things as they truly were.

On the Steel Breeze (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alastair Reynolds (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.