The Void Trilogy Quotes

“Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“There were eight of them standing across the road a hundred meters short of the plaza. Pastel light from the buildings on either side glittered across their extravagant jeweled longcoats. One of them raised a long white spear and bowed slightly. “Silfen,” Gore sighed, resisting the urge to give them the finger in return.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“She walked though the broad thoroughfares between them,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. “I win,” he said softly, then shouted it. “I fucking win! And the universe knows it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“It had to be done, they were determined about that; some attempt had to be made to break the cycle of crime and poverty.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“we invented the concept back while your DNA was still trying to break free from mollusks.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Doesn’t it have any safety systems?” she yelled at Ranto as she curved around again. He shrugged. “Drive safe,” he suggested.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“the Silfen wouldn’t let her use their paths and worlds as a refuge.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“What worried Edeard most was the long distance at which these episodes occurred. Makkathran did not get to hear of a bandit incident until months after it actually happened”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“If voting never makes a difference,” Edeard asked, “why go to so much trouble?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Before, it never really made any difference which candidate you voted for. Nothing was different afterward.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Calabi-Yau manifold”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“He stared at the broken gun, abhorrence glowing in his mind. “If we fail to stop them out in the provinces, then we will have to make similar guns just to survive. Can you imagine the carnage that will unleash on this world? The damage one man can wreak with such a gun multiplied a thousandfold.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Something is out there, some society, moving with a malign purpose. A society inimical to ours, bent on destroying us for no reason we know.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Edeard was taken to one of the rooms on the seventh floor, where a tailor who specialized in dressing militia officers was summoned to produce a set of constable uniforms made from cloth more fitting to someone of his new “status.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Even your cruelty is a joy, Mistress.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“There must be a way.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“If you don’t call them off, I will personally rip your fucking arkship apart molecule by molecule with all of you in it,” Gore was yelling. “You think the Void is a bad thing? Do you, huh? You believe that? Because let me tell you: It is your mommy with her titty out for you to suck on compared to me.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“I cheated,” the Cat said, and rested a finger on her lips. “Bad lady that I am. I used a small insert.” She grinned at the companions, who glared back at her through clenched teeth. “And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn’t it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they’re told.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn’t it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they’re told.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Troblum, darling, are you going to make a run for it? Tell you what, I’ll give you a five-minute head start. Do you think your fat legs can reach the bottom of the stairs by then? Will you need to sit down and take a breather?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“He didn’t really have any tactical programs to run, no smart way to work out how to escape from an underground room with only one door and no communication. But then, he was pretty sure even the best tactical program would tell him he was going to die.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“There’s a Silfen path on Viotia?” “Yes. They don’t use it much. They don’t enjoy planets with civilizations like ours on them.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“No humans lived in Albany itself; the technicians who kept it running were housed in dormitory towns twenty miles away.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“To get to his level in under a hundred fifty years illustrated a phenomenal achievement.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Because anything that has to use the Cat to make it work can’t be right. It just can’t.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Millions of humans live inside the Void. They live lives full of hope and love and laughter; they live lives better than any of us out here.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I’m like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“I can trace her bloodline right back to Arabians on Earth from the mid-nineteenth century. She’s as pure as they come. Not an artificial sequence in her whole genome;”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy

“Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Void Trilogy