Given the evidence at our disposal, only a fool would put any faith in the organic and the machine living harmoniously for the rest of time. - Alastair Reynolds

I'm not a bad man, Ilia. I'm just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done." "Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.

Is there anyone or anything in this city which can't be bought?" I said, slipping him a note. "Yeah," the man said, laughing quietly. "But I'm not it.

You’ve been good to me, Inigo. But I really am like the weather. You can admire me, even love me, in your way, but I can’t love you back. To me you’re like a photograph. I can see right through you, examine you from all angles. You amuse me. But you don’t have enough depth ever to fascinate me.