# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Century Rain

> But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Century Rain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain.md)
- Page: 573
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Century_Rain_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain/but-when-she

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> Auger could not help marvelling at the experience of being inside the ALS sphere and seeing her world as it should have been. This was an earth that had never known nuclear war, or runaway climatic catastrophe, or smart weather, or a Nanocaust. The sight of it made her want to weep. No image had ever come close to the heartbreaking beauty of this small blue world, a beauty all the more acute now that she knew how exquisitely fragile it was. It was the beauty of a butterfly’s wing.

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> There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.

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> It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.

p. 573 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain/it-was-bad.md)