Personally," Scorpio said, "I think it's time to stop thinking chivalry and start thinking artillery. - Alastair Reynolds

I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.

You look older, son." "Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.

It was easy to sound that confident; less easy to believe it in his heart. They had got this far did not give them an automatic guarantee of success. The world did not work like that. It took pleasure in punishing the cocksure.