Exodus Quotes

“Five Regal hands were raised with studied nonchalance.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“Humans, too, are becoming numerous. We don’t cull egrets because they are beautiful and ornamental. We don’t cull humans because they are economically useful. However, if left completely unchecked, they would both ruin their environment. They eat; they breed; they shit. Neither is good at keeping their world clean and tidy. Too stupid, essentially.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“The only thing I’m wanting here now is for you to fuck right off. The Diligent is mine. Stop accelerating and turn your cheap little magic ship around. Leave while you still have some dignity. I’ll handle this.”
“Yeah, and what the fuck do you know about dignity, shithead? I’m taking charge here. You fuck off!”
“You fucking fuck off, motherfucker!”
“No, fuck you. And fuck your neanderthal freak only-a-single-body-for-everyone dominion!”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus

“Don’t you find that incredible? That not one single law has been reviewed and found lacking—has ever been reviewed, come to that? That’s not the stability the queens boast about, that’s stagnation. And it won’t end well.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus

“To imagine is to substitute wishfulness for knowledge,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“Terence and Lućia flinched down in unison. Yelice and his two squad mates hurried in. He studied the three prone figures on the floor and lifted his helmet visor. “I hope you remembered to inform them of their rights?” “Absolutely,” Lućia said. “ ’Course, they might not remember that part. What with the stress and all.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“The contact was extremely weird, not so much filling his mind with information but surrounding it with massive lumbering routines. Bizarrely, his mind chose to interpret it as being in the middle of a herd of elephants as they clustered around a water hole. He chose a single routine at random and tried to focus on it. The tenuous specter expanded around him in the same way the clouds of Kingsnest had kept growing during the Diligent’s approach.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine