Thousandth Night Quotes

“It was created to endure for a specific moment in time. Like a sandcastle, or an ice sculpture. Here, and then gone. In a way, that's the beauty of it. Who'd marvel at a sandcastle, if sandcastles lasted forever?”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night

“It took time for light to reach the Eye from distant galaxies. The further out the Eye looked, the further it looked back into the history of the universe. Galaxies ten million light years away were glimpsed as they were ten million years earlier; those a billion light years away offered a window into the universe when it was a billion years younger than the present epoch.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night

“Fescue poured the remains of his wine into my ocean. “Until then we need a degree of focus.” “Focus yourself,” I said, turning away.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night