The Saints of Salvation Quotes

“You think our decency makes us weak,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“if you’re in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“Mass sensors confirmed there was nothing other than hydrogen atoms and a few grains of carbon within a thousand kilometers of the hull.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“You’re frighteningly advanced, so it’s comforting to know you put so much emphasis on ethics. They are so easy to abandon in times of war.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“They might be different species, but it was easy enough to see your own kind in a mirror, however great the distortion.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“Time is always constant to the observer,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“I consider it extremely unlikely. Which I admit sounds like an agnostic answer rather than a definitive atheist assertion.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It’s how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“But the very nature of linear time implies that—from an external observer viewpoint—the history of the entire universe from creation to heat death exists in a static form, allowing us—consciousness—to perceive time moving in only one direction. Ergo, the universe’s entirety—both space and time—was created as a complete whole. Which argues that change is not possible.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“The Olyix can’t always have been miserable fascist bastards,” Yuri said. “Something changed them.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“strangelets”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“We don’t need saving from ourselves; we never did. We’ve always had catastrophe preachers walking among us, profiting off the fear they create—either to sell something or to keep the population in line. But if you look at the progress we’ve made as a species, from clunkheads who chased antelopes across the savanna up to a society that settled distant stars— Hell, if I still had eyes I would weep with pride. Sure, whatever time you’re born into, that progress was never fast enough, and fuck knows enough personal injustices were never redeemed. But overall, we have nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“So here she was in an alien arkship in a time-skewed enclave, where she’d arrived by traveling down a wormhole for fifty thousand light-years, ten thousand years after fleeing her home, battling a religious extremist alien with a grudge. Cool.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“It remained a source of mild shame that he’d never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you’re in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation

“Around them, the rest of the thirty-strong fleet was moving, spreading wide as they left the three habitats behind, assuming the broad circular formation that they would maintain for the next hundred thirty-seven light-years.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Saints of Salvation