That's how it went, wasn't it Zebra?" "It might," she said. "If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions. - Alastair Reynolds

For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.

Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.

Even godlike aliens have to act rationally—don't they?" "I wouldn't know," she said. "I can't recall ever meeting any.