Quotes From "Revelation Space" By Alastair Reynolds

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off–it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people. Alastair Reynolds

Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past. Alastair Reynolds

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. Alastair Reynolds

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

You're confident he'll have found him, then?"" Well, no. I didn't sat that."" If there's one thing I hate, " Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism. Alastair Reynolds

Still, it was vision, or at least vision’s idiot cousin. Alastair Reynolds

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth Alastair Reynolds

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light. Alastair Reynolds