Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

Something is out there, some society, moving with a malign purpose. A society inimical to ours, bent on destroying us for no reason we know.

I'm not an Edenist, Ione said. What about me, and all the other Adamists, the majority of our race? Are you going to stand back as we perish and fall into the beyond?

He stared at the broken gun, abhorrence glowing in his mind. "If we fail to stop them out in the provinces, then we will have to make similar guns just to survive. Can you imagine the carnage that will unleash on this world? The damage one man can wreak with such a gun multiplied a thousandfold.

it's rarer than unicorn shit

Prepare to have your warranty voided," she said.

Of course, in an ideal world we'd be using mercury as the propellant fluid, but even that has handling problems, not to mention cost and sourcing for the kind of volume we're looking at. So what we've wound up with is a very dense hydrocarbon, it's almost pure crude oil, but the chemists have tweaked the molecular structure so it remains liquid over a huge temperature range.

we invented the concept back while your DNA was still trying to break free from mollusks.

From Bonney's position it was as if a small fusion bomb had detonated above her, sending its billowing mushroom cloud hurtling downwards. "All this," she cried disbelievingly, "for me?

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

It helped that any sexual impulse he might have felt was effectively neutralized by her drinking. After the first hour of any evening, she was not a pleasant person to be around.

Time is always constant to the observer

There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression

I cheated," the Cat said, and rested a finger on her lips. "Bad lady that I am. I used a small insert." She grinned at the companions, who glared back at her through clenched teeth. "And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.

He'd learned long ago that logic and facts never meant anything to true believers—of anything.

London said frog, and we all hopped

Does it hurt?" "Fucking fuck!

It was a collective building up of nerve, absolving them of any guilt in advance.

Small wonder, then, that Tranquillity, with its liberal banking laws, low income tax, the availability of blackhawks to charter, and an impartial habitat-personality which policed the interior to ensure a crime-free environment (essential for the peace of mind of the millionaires and billionaires who resided within), had prospered, becoming one of the Confederation's premier independent trading and finance centres.

What worried Edeard most was the long distance at which these episodes occurred. Makkathran did not get to hear of a bandit incident until months after it actually happened

You think that isn't you? You believe you are noble and kind? Do you know how the dominance works?

Yeah, right, so much choice there. Her mood wasn't helped by the fact she hadn't got laid this visit. Again: choices.

The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.

Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.