Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

It was a bold plan. If your definition of bold is plain batshit crazy.

Security wants to verify the place safe first, make sure the terrorists didn't leave any nasty little booby traps behind.

I'll see if I can get some more video files," Raina said. "But a lot of the surveillance cameras in Kintore are cloud stored, especially the civic ones covering the streets. Hacking them is going to be a little more difficult." "Do what you can," he told her.

Laser radar guided the starship

Thousands of years of solitude. Eons of running from the grief of his passing. And now here he was, pressed up against her again

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.

But rocks falling on our heads can't happen anymore," Alik insisted. "We're not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we're here to stay. It's Darwin.

It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.

climbed along things he called tree reefs that live in a nebula of gas dense enough to breathe.

Now, let me tell you what's going to happen," Castillito said, righting her chair. "If I don't walk out of here within another two hours, details of your Eliter heritage will be anonymously delivered to Gorlan and your precious Stonal.

Do yourself a favor, laddy: Forget ANA. Bunch of decadent aristos who've been mentally taxidermied.

There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)

The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else is allowing them to win.

Well, guess what happened when somebody's starship went poking around? The goddamn thing was packed full of scientists desperate to see what was inside. I mean, why you dumbasses see curiosity as one of your overriding virtues is anyone's guess. Ever heard of caution?

The project didn't deserve this; they were trying to achieve something noble and right with the starship. No piece-of-shit trendy-cause rebel outside the political process had the right to screw with that.

The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon.

Stellar coordinates? she mused. But it was unlikely anyone on the planet would have had the first clue about such things.

It had to be done, they were determined about that; some attempt had to be made to break the cycle of crime and poverty.

He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? "Optimism!

We fight them in a thousand small ways each day, my young friend. That is how decent people will triumph in the end.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

Astronauts got laid a lot .

2049 USA passes illegals dispersal bill. All illegal immigrants in original states on Earth deported to the territories on new US planets.