# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Galactic North

> Grafenwalder shoots a sidelong glance at Ursula Goodglass, wondering what their marriage must be like. Clearly sex isn’t in the cards, but he doubts that it was ever the main interest in their lives. Games, especially those of prestige and subterfuge, are amongst the chief entertainments of the Rust Belt moneyed.

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Galactic North](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north.md)
- Page: 212
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/grafenwalder-shoots-a-sidelong

## More from this book

> “All right, Marius—I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?”
>
> “I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.”

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/all-right-marius-i.md)

> “Only trying to make conversation, friend.”
>
> “Don’t bother—it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.”

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/only-trying-to-make.md)

> Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/afterwards-when-clavain.md)