Alastair Reynolds: Frases en inglés
“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”
Fuente: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 19 (p. 325)
“Can I still wish you good luck?”
“You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.
Chapter 38 (p. 654)
Redemption Ark (2002)
“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.
Fuente: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)
“That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?”
“It might,” she said. “If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.”
Fuente: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 479).
“Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?”
Khouri had asked.
“Heard of it,” Volyova said. “Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?”
Fuente: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).
“How long have we been friends, Dan?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”
Chapter 7 (p. 166).
Revelation Space (2000)
“I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.”
A Spy in Europa (pp. 104-105)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)
“Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?”
“We won’t know until we try,” Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
Turquoise Days, Chapter 2 (pp. 240-241)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)
“Do you think it means anything?”
“Probably not," Ricasso said, wiping his dust-smeared hands on his knees. “I’m all for looking for meaning in ancient texts. But now and then you have to just accept the fact that you’re dealing with so much religious gibberish.”
Chapter 22 (p. 413)
Terminal World (2010)
“This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.”
Fuente: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 16 (p. 265)
“And you do not think that this is possible?”
“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”
Chapter 12 (p. 188)
Terminal World (2010)
“I have only your word for that.”
“Yes,” the glass man said, “that’s rather the point. There’s going to have to be a lot more trust from this time forward. Why don’t we start as we mean to go on?”
Chapter 41 (p. 563)
House of Suns (2008)
“Do you see us slavering for revenge, that most pointlessly biological of imperatives?”
Fuente: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 41 (p. 558)
“We were sowing so much misinformation that some of it came back and bit us.”
Fuente: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (pp. 516-517)