Quotes from The Reality Dysfunction

“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. ”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The final transition was his skin, replacing the eczema-ridden epidermis with a smooth ochre silicon membrane. Warlow didn’t need a spacesuit to work in the vacuum, he could survive for over three weeks without a power and oxygen recharge. His facial features had become purely cosmetic, a crude mannequin-like caricature of human physiognomy, although there was an inlet valve at the back of his throat for fluid intake. There was no hair, and he certainly didn’t bother with clothes. Sex was something he lost in his fifties.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“weapons science was always kept very close to the government’s chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the minds which, thanks to circumstance, have set and hardened against new concepts and ideas from an early age.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

“The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Reality Dysfunction

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