Quotes from Terminal World — Alastair Reynolds
born 1966 United Kingdom
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They might have their airships and machine guns, but superstition wasn’t something that went away just because you had engines and bullets.
Terminal World (2010)
Hopefully they’ll accept me for what I am, not what I was. That’s all we can ever hope for, isn’t it?
Terminal World (2010)
“And you do not think that this is possible?”
“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”
Terminal World (2010)
This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.
Terminal World (2010)
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)
She was pointing into the empty, angel-less heavens beyond.
Everything else. The universe.
Terminal World (2010)
I’m not asking you to open your mind to all manner of nonsense, Doctor, merely to allow for the possibility of things you might previously have dismissed, or failed to give any consideration to whatsoever. Such as the fact that the world was not always this way, and by implication doesn’t have to be this way in the future.
Terminal World (2010)
It was easy to sound that confident; less easy to believe it in his heart. They had got this far did not give them an automatic guarantee of success. The world did not work like that. It took pleasure in punishing the cocksure.
Terminal World (2010)