# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

> It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Redemption Ark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark.md)
- Page: 265
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Redemption_Ark_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark/it-was-his

## More from this book

> There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.

p. 667 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark/there-were-choices.md)

> Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark/volyova-did-not.md)

> And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.

p. 662 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark/and-even-if-what.md)