Quotes by : Alastair Reynolds

Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke....

It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed....

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.....

The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them loaded with subtly different possibilities.....

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in....

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.....

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’‘We....