# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

> “The question is: do you trust me?”
>
> “Sometimes.”
>
> Bella smiled. “That’s exactly the right attitude: trust your leaders, but be careful not to trust them too much.”

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Pushing Ice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice.md)
- Page: 397
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Pushing_Ice_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice/the-question-is-do-you

## More from this book

> The existence theorem says that it is always much easier to find a solution when you can be confident that one exists.

p. 444 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice/the-existence-theorem.md)

> I wish there was something we could do. But organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe. When it is lost, it is truly lost.

p. 557 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice/i-wish-there.md)

> “Is he going to be okay?” Svetlana asked.
>
> “He was dead, Svieta,” Axford said patiently. “Anything else has to count as an improvement.”

p. 354 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice/is-he-going.md)