# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

> This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Redemption Ark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/redemption-ark.md)
- Page: 367
- 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/this-gets-better

## 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)