# Alastair Reynolds - Quotes: 230 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds ## Books - [Absolution Gap](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/absolution-gap.md) — 14 quotes - [Beyond the Aquila Rift](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/beyond-the-aquila-rift.md) — 4 quotes - [Blue Remembered Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/blue-remembered-earth.md) — 13 quotes - [Century Rain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain.md) — 25 quotes - [Chasm City](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/chasm-city.md) — 20 quotes - [Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/diamond-dogs-turquoise-days.md) — 5 quotes - [Galactic North](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north.md) — 11 quotes - [House of Suns](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/house-of-suns.md) — 22 quotes - [On the Steel Breeze](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze.md) — 14 quotes - [Poseidon's Wake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake.md) — 28 quotes - [Pushing Ice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice.md) — 18 quotes - [Redemption Ark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark.md) — 24 quotes - [Revelation Space](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/revelation-space.md) — 19 quotes - [Terminal World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/terminal-world.md) — 13 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Believe me, Kanu—the one thing you don’t do in emergencies is think things through. Thinking things through gets you a headstone and a nice epitaph. She thought things through. See how that worked out for her. p. 601 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/believe-me-kanu-the.md) > We have all made mistakes. The mark of intelligence is to learn from them, and not be bound by the errors of the past. p. 437 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/we-have-all.md) > “And when do we abandon negotiation and start hitting each other with increasingly large sticks?” Ru said. > > “Only when we’ve exhausted all the other options,” Vasin said. p. 453 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/and-when-do-we-abandon.md) > The sense of squandered possibility, of better paths now lost to them all, filled him with a sudden rising sadness. He wondered if it was too late to make something better of their world. p. 473 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/the-sense-of-squandered.md) > If I’ve learned one thing in my long existence, it’s that hesitation gets you nowhere. p. 450 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/if-ive-learned.md) > Oh, I’m not perfect—not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad. p. 580 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/oh-im-not.md) > “You’re taking this very well,” Goma said. > > Eunice gave a semi-shrug. “Experience. You can fight the odds up to a point, but sooner or later you have to face reality. The universe doesn’t care about temper tantrums or pity.” p. 485 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/youre-taking-this.md) > “They dug too far into physics and it bit them. Physics will do that. It’s an ungrateful piece of shit. It’s a fickle lover that will always betray you. It courts you, gives you rewards, coughs up little treats like fire and the wheel, telescopes and the secret of starflight, makes you think you’re worth it, that you’re the special one, that you really, really matter to it.…All the while it’s saving up this nasty little truth: that every thought, every deed, every hope you’ve ever held is futile. That the universe will end, and forget itself. That there is no such thing as meaning.… > > “Do you believe it?” Goma asked. > > “Of course I believe it. Physics doesn’t give a damn about how we feel. It doesn’t give a damn about a sleeping soundly in our beds, thinking we matter.” p. 577 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/they-dug-too.md) > You wish things were different from the way they are. That’s a refrain as old as time. I’ve lived a long and strange sort of life, Kanu, and I’ve known that feeling a few times. Generally it’s best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it’s time to start digging your way out. p. 605 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/you-wish-things.md) > “I’d argue with you, but I suspect it would feel a bit like arguing with myself.” > > “Futile?” > > “Boring.” p. 568 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/id-argue-with.md) > “For all you know, no one even remembers what you did by now.” > > “No one remembers anything, in the end.” p. 620 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/for-all-you.md) > Of course there were no miracles to be had, except of the modest kind permitted by the exigencies of medicine and time. p. 381 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/poseidons-wake/of-course-there.md)