Quotes by : Alastair Reynolds

To see something marvellous with your own eyes - that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it,....

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.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all....

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a....

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of....

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit....