Beyond the Aquila Rift Quotes

“Believe me, this will help. When everything seems like it couldn’t get any worse, you’ll always be able to tell yourself: I did this one brilliant thing, this one brilliant thing that no one else has ever or will ever do. And that makes me special.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

“We stabilised the Wall’s degradation with software running on dumb machines,” she said. “But when Felka was born we found that she managed the task just as efficiently as the computers; in some ways better than they ever did. In fact, she seemed to thrive on it. It was as if in the Wall she found…” Galiana trailed off. “I was going to say a friend.” “Why don’t you?” “Because the Wall’s just a machine. Which means if Felka recognised kinship…what would that make her?”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

“He acts old. That’s all that matters.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

“While there were still children in the universe, and while children could still be enchanted by something as simple and wonderful as a flower, there was still a reason to keep looking, a reason to keep believing.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

“I take each day as it comes. I’d rather take good memories from one world than fret about the thousand I’ll never see.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

“That we wouldn’t be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we’ve touched a world, it stays touched.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds