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Quotes from Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds

born 1966 United Kingdom

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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

Revelation Space (2000)

For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.

Revelation Space (2000)

“You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.”

Revelation Space (2000)

“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)

The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.

Revelation Space (2000)

She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.

Revelation Space (2000)

It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.

Revelation Space (2000)

She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.

Revelation Space (2000)

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

Revelation Space (2000)

“I don’t know.” That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Revelation Space (2000)

For whatever reason, I am now fully conscious. Perhaps all beta-levels are capable of this, or perhaps my sheer connectional complexity ensured that I exceeded some state of critical mass. I have no idea. All I know is that I think, and therefore I’m exceedingly angry.

Revelation Space (2000)

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