12 quotes
They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.
Redemption Ark (2002)
“Wonderful, isn’t it?”
“Wonderful and a little spooky.”
“Like all the best things in the universe.”
House of Suns (2008)
“You look older, son.”
“Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.”
Revelation Space (2000)
In Clavain’s experience, it was the less comforting possibility that generally turned out to be the case. It was the way the universe worked.
Redemption Ark (2002)
He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.
Redemption Ark (2002)
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)
Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.
Redemption Ark (2002)
That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternity, but the universe would always find a way to have the last laugh.
Pushing Ice (2005)
“I worry that it’s me they’re really after.”
“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.”
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
She was pointing into the empty, angel-less heavens beyond.
Everything else. The universe.
Terminal World (2010)
It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
Redemption Ark (2002)
It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn’t know what was happening here. It didn’t know and it didn’t care. It didn’t even know that it didn’t know.
Absolution Gap (2003)