Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.

The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.

Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed.

Political policies determine how the human race confronts this crisis. War doesn't have that ability. War has only one outcome. War is stupid, Ralph. It is the desecration of the human spirit, martyring yourself for someone else's dream. It is for people who do not believe in themselves.

I don't get it. There's nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That's crazy.

During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.

I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated until it threatened to collapse around you.

sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.

This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.

Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.

Why do they both refer to your deity while mating?" Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. "Is it a request for a blessing?

Forty-two." "Excuse me?" I queried. "Old joke," the cardinal admitted. "The number of angels that can actually dance on a pinhead.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.

So how big an interest have you been taking in the Pilgrimage?' 'Big. That idiot Ethan really could trigger the end of the galaxy. I'd have to move.' 'How terrible.

getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion.