Poseidon's Wake Quotes

“Even monsters are beautiful.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Oh, I’m not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“sufficient determination will conquer any natural reluctance.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Generally it’s best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it’s time to start digging your way out.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“our deeds have no higher meaning than the context of the moment in which they occur.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Our fears keep us on our toes.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Few of us get the things we deserve,’ Ndege said, ‘but we make the best of what we’re given.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Self-defence is an exceedingly elastic concept. Would you be so good as to narrow the parameters?”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?"
"I've no idea.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Might you show me how to project a schematic of the entire inner solar system? I appear to be unable to zoom out from the immediate neighbourhood of Paladin.” “Access that sub-menu, then select the logarithmic scale factor,” Nissa said. “Thank you—I should have seen that.” The”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Weapons readiness?” “Nominal,” Dalal”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“That’s what the Remembering is like, Goma – it’s more than recollection, passed-down stories, oral history. They feel it. It’s deep within them – a bridge of blood between the present and the past. He remembered Earth. He spoke of it not as something he’d been told about, but as a world he knew in his bones. As if he ached for blue skies, hard sunlight, the promise of the long rains. Life as an elephant – simple as breathing, hard as death, the joy and the sadness of being alive. Nothing was ever easy for them. But nothing was ever as strong, either. They were born knowing they were the kings of creation. They took the worst that the world could throw at them, including humanity.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“It was good to be loved, good to love another human being – even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake