Neal Asher Quotes.

1. "by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

2. "If Polity forces were to turn up here, then your king would have to respond, by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

3. "You are newborn from the furnace and about to enter Hell. And in time you will, for reasons will find obscure, name yourself Penny Royal ..."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

4. "They say time heals. No, it just wears away pain. It grinds everything to dust."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

5. "Why did anyone make a deal with the devil? Desperation, pursuit of power and wealth … Or perhaps a mistaken confidence in one’s ability to avoid pitfalls, to take something worthwhile from that deal and not be, as some would have it, royally screwed."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

6. "When superior minds start stating the obvious, said Amistad, I tend to start questioning the appellation ’superior’."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

7. "Next it was Greer’s turn. It took four of them to subdue her and stop her trying to rearrange her face with a commando knife. Finally, drugged to the eyeballs and strapped to a gurney in the medical bay, she admitted that she didn’t want to be a heavy-worlder any more – she wanted to be beautiful. When Blite asked her how trying to cut off her own face might help, she’d just given him a very puzzled look. While she was still there, undergoing some sort of treatment involving drugs and lights that the autodoc had dragged out of its memory bank, Ikbal began his muttering. He didn’t know he was doing it until he was told. And when he tried to stop himself, he started on the scratching and pulling out pieces of his white hair. But it was when Martina entered Blite’s cabin, naked, and demanded he ‘fuck her hard’ that Blite decided enough was enough. Martina had been a lesbian ever since he had known her – her dislike for heterosexual sex almost morbid."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

8. "Fucking supercilious Polity minds. They could be so super intelligent, but they had no real idea about her. About the alliances, responsibilities, commitments and the sheer difficulty involved in relinquishing something she’d fought so hard to build, and it had no appreciation of just how vulnerable she’d be if she let it go. They never went through anything like this—just adjusted themselves either physically or mentally to suit current circumstances."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

9. "However, he might not accept that having your face eaten off was suitable punishment for smoking aboard her ship."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence

10. "to appreciate the wonder of the universe, one must first remain alive."
- Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence