Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

It was the sort of review board that Jeff thoroughly disapproved of; hands-on bureaucratic interference in university and agency programs always lead to pure science being impoverished.

Your generation, always want the capital letters, never the subtext. You don’t learn to read properly, that’s the trouble. And don’t start telling me you’ve accessed books. I’m talking about the real thing, good solid paper that you can hold in your hand, and bend the page corners the way you’re not supposed to.

Do I get her in the end, the princess?"
"Unless you've got a magic sword and a flying dragon that does smart-ass one-liners, not a snowflake's chance in hell.

Well, I’ve grown up from that silly little girl, Jeff. I’ve learned how to be a full-fledged modern bitch, which is the only survival trait that counts in this world. I can swim with the sharks now, and they’ll be the ones who get scared when I’m in the water.

One of the reasons she’d never quite made it to supermodel status was her generous bust size.

Jesus, what planet do they import people like that from?

The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.

Politicians, they’re all as bad as each other.

Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine… The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe.

The thing is this, Tim; you’re eighteen, forever is about a month at your age.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

Here there was only yourself; a soul buried alive. Nothing to comfort you but your own life. Screaming from the pain of the blows which battered him down might have stopped, but the internal scream of self-loathing could never cease.

Want to talk about it?"
"No."
"I think you're supposed to. All my friends who talk native psychobabble say you should rationalize events back to their origin point so you can acknowledge their structural integration within your life flow."
"Alison, that's…that…such a load of crap."
"I know that.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.