The Neutronium Alchemist Quotes

“You cannot fight entropy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Memories do not hurt, they only influence.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race’s curses.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“ignorance and blind faith made life altogether less stressful.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Omuta’s sun would not flare and rupture, would never endanger life on the planet with waves of heat and radiation. Instead the sun would shrink and collapse into a small black sphere, with every erg of its fusing nuclei lost to the universe for ever.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“A promise made under duress is not legally binding. I’m sure you’ll have enough lawyers on your side to confirm that.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“equipoise”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“From Bonney’s position it was as if a small fusion bomb had detonated above her, sending its billowing mushroom cloud hurtling downwards. “All this,” she cried disbelievingly, “for me?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“But first her current status had to be legally established, if she was a hostile prisoner under the terms of the state of emergency, or a hapless victim. In either case, she was still entitled to a legal representative.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“there anyone up there?” “No,” Gelai said. “Are you sure?” “Yes.” Of all the facets of possession, the perception ability fascinated Alkad the most. She’d only just started considering the mechanism of possession. The whole concept would ultimately mean quantum cosmology having to be completely restructured again. So far, she’d made very little theoretical progress.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“It docked at one of their national low orbit stations, the Spirit of Freedom,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Confiscate? You say that with some malice. Is that what the Communists on your world say they’re going to do?” “Yes, they want to redistribute Norfolk’s wealth fairly.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“comme il faut.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Laser radar guided the starship”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“I can’t trust the living,” Loren told her.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“For good reasons at the time,” the King ruminated. “Those damn atheists with their helium3 monopoly have so much power over us Adamists.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“It does seem somewhat classical. One can hardly credit that Dante did actually get shown around Hell.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Economics is dead, and true equality will rise out of the ashes. We’ve turned our back on materialism, rejected it completely. It has no purpose anymore. Now we can live as we please, develop our minds not our finances.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Okay, people,” Kiera announced, with a grossly stressed American twang. “This is a stickup. Don’t nobody move, and shove your valuables in this here sack.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“at an exponential rate, and the entire Confederation will fall, every living human will become possessed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“would be dependent on who was speaking with whom, whose ideologies clashed, whose religions denounced the other. The whole point of ethnic streaming colonies, as Earth had painfully discovered centuries ago during the Great Dispersal, was that foreign cultures can live harmoniously with each other providing they didn’t have to live jammed together on the same planet.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“You are going to have to make considerable adjustments to your culture now you know humans have an immortal soul.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“These idiot Satanists have been dancing through the woods at midnight for centuries, and they’ve never succeeded in summoning up the dead before.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“He was readying his energistic powers to deal with her bodyguards, who had now caught her up, when she did her level best to ram his testicles into his eye sockets via his intestinal tract.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“New Kong’s industrial facilities from the O’Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu star system, founds Christian-only colony,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Massive starship building programme initiated in O’Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist

“Ross 154.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist