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Quotes from Pushing Ice — Alastair Reynolds

born 1966 United Kingdom

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14 quotes

The existence theorem says that it is always much easier to find a solution when you can be confident that one exists.

Pushing Ice (2005)

It’s always easier to hate than to forgive, isn’t it?

Pushing Ice (2005)

Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.

Pushing Ice (2005)

There are certain truths that, in themselves, are as dangerous as any advanced technology.

Pushing Ice (2005)

Hallucination doesn’t preclude a rational response to that same hallucination.

Pushing Ice (2005)

“You always did think like an engineer, Svieta.”
She nodded. It was only hours later that she realised he had not necessarily meant it as a compliment.

Pushing Ice (2005)

“There’s still hope.”
But a small, private voice said: there’s hope, and there’s desperation.

Pushing Ice (2005)

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)

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

Pushing Ice (2005)

I wish there was something we could do. But organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe. When it is lost, it is truly lost.

Pushing Ice (2005)

“The question is: do you trust me?”
“Sometimes.”
Bella smiled. “That’s exactly the right attitude: trust your leaders, but be careful not to trust them too much.”

Pushing Ice (2005)

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)

Once, they would have meant something to Svetlana, but now all she felt was a faint prickly of recollection. Fluency with mathematics—in the context of any kind of engineering discipline or physical science—was a use-it-or-lose-it skill.

Pushing Ice (2005)

It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other.
They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.

Pushing Ice (2005)

Attribution

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