223 Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We’re all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba.”“That sounds ... compelling,” the physician allowed.

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?""I've no idea.

It was good to be loved, good to love another human being – even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.

Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.

The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.

Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick.