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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 10fdab5 | I stayed where I was and watched. The man and the corridor. He didn't make any other noise, and the corridor didn't do anything that corridors don't normally do. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 85e4b03 | It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f065d65 | The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 3d26654 | Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 346d387 | Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire, | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 168023c | I used to be like that once. I never gave anybody a second chance. It's a very sad way to live your life." "Do you believe the dragons should provide patternform technology to humans?" "Yes, I do. Denise is convinced that because we didn't create it for ourselves we won't be able to handle it properly, that it will be constantly misused. To me it's completely irrelevant that we didn't work out every little detail for ourselves." "Why?" "Oth.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 1db3c89 | The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c425489 | Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| b50bc2f | So how big an interest have you been taking in the Pilgrimage?' 'Big. That idiot Ethan really could trigger the end of the galaxy. I'd have to move.' 'How terrible. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 13ce3d7 | True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f8e2934 | Alert> Five Chikoya approaching, open assault formation. Multiple target acquisition. Armed> Disruptor pulse. Maximum power rating. Sequential fire. U-shadow update: landing exit capsule behind Building-D. Armed> Neutron lasers. Maximum power rating. Sequential fire. U-shadow update: decoy capsules on collision vector. Mach eight. Accelerating. Armed> Microkinetics. Enhanced explosive warheads. Free fire authority. Armed> Ariel smartseeker .. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 028b75b | The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the changes and defeats they endured, the castle stood solid at the center of their capital. They waited for generations for the Scottish nation to be properly reborn after their Bonnie Prince was lost. There were times when the cause seemed impossible, or even cursed; they regained their independence fr.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 55e4d0a | Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly did its best. But of course, if a method had been found to clear up people's finances and put them on a hundred per cent legitimate, transparent basis, it would have worked for everyone, politicians and tax officials included. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f8920d6 | Formal address wrongness. Much sorriness. Greetings ritual observance. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c4d30bf | So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 35e832c | Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 15099a7 | You cannot fight entropy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| e346e28 | I'm an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it's like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs? | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7d90e20 | babies are God's way of persuading parents to have teenagers. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 0a21007 | Marius glowered at the long cone-shaped ship with its stupid curving tailfins. His field scan swept out. It was an illusion, produced by a small module on the airlock floor. He smashed a disruptor pulse into the solido projector, and the starship image shivered, shrinking down to a beautiful, naked young girl with blonde hair that hung halfway down her back. 'Oh, Howard,' she moaned sensually, running her hands up her body, 'do that again.'.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| db34669 | The Silverbird was tracking the Raiel's gas giant-sized DF spheres as they continued their flight across the star system. Gravity waves spilled out from them with astonishing force, distorting the orbits within the main asteroid rings. A couple of small moons caught in the backwash had also changed inclination. All nine of the DFs were heading in towards the small orange star which Centurion Station's never-named planet was in orbit around... | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7eba089 | Out of twinkling stardust all came, into dark matter all will fall. Death mocks us as we laugh defiance at entropy, yet ignorance birthed mortals sail forth upon time's cruel sea. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ed18624 | Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 1b7de4a | Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| a22e496 | Every Navy warship assigned to the Sol protection fleet flashed in towards Earth, knitting together in a defensive formation that extended out beyond lunar orbit. Weapons platforms that had spent decades stealthed in high orbit emerged to join the incredible array of firepower lining up on the Swarm. All over the planet, force fields powered up, shielding the remaining cities. Anyone outside an urban area was immediately teleported in to sa.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 6412541 | I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 51256a8 | This desperate act was inevitable. This act is a direct result of the oppression, both political and economic, imposed by our government. You crush hope. Yes, you! You destroy opportunity. You eradicate dignity. You do all that so you may maintain your filthy bigoted anti-democratic society. You leave the rest of us no choice. We are not allowed to protest. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 1353204 | Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d5c9328 | weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| f2b8e97 | Ian kept his brain in his dick, | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| a501ac4 | It's not a god he worships, it's the devil. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 1e43984 | It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 16bbfb7 | They would have thought me mad, even Kristabel. Flying carriages. People who live forever. Hundreds of inhabited worlds. Machine servants instead of genistars. Cities where Makkathran would be naught but a small district. A civilization where justice was available to all. Aliens. More stars in the sky than it is possible to count. No, such marvels of my fevered imagination were best kept inside my skull. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 2c95f00 | Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d1229fa | Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 11437ee | As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 7bba8f8 | killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 448c93e | Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 591a3b6 | It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the minds which, thanks to circumstance, have set and hardened against new concepts and ideas from an early age. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 9a1cd9a | Is Vermillion damaged?' 'No.' He gave her an anxious grin. 'Not exactly. Just lost.' 'Lost?' It was possibly an even more worrying answer. How could you get lost flying to a star cluster that measured twenty thousand lightyears in diameter? It wasn't as if you could lose sight of something of that magnitude. 'That's ridiculous.' 'The captain will explain. Let's get you to the bridge. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| bbfd50f | Some believe that we will eventually sink back to the more simple-minded creatures which we evolved out of and the planet will bring another mind forward." "Isn't that the opposite of evolution?" "Only from a single-species perspective. A planet's life is paramount. It is such a fragile rare event, it should be treasured and nurtured for the potential it brings forth. If that means abdicating our physical dominance for our successors, then .. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d59776a | The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 59b0bb1 | That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 19c3921 | Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we? | Peter F. Hamilton |