like for every imaginable quantifiable resource, there is…

“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“A wave is travelling across the adamantine vastness. Where it passes, only a smooth, featureless surface remains, an endless, shining plain, a nothingness. The…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“Tell me one thing,’ Isidore says. ‘What was this place before?’ The Eldest pauses. An expression of sadness flickers across her serene face.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“The carriage lurches back and forth as the vehicle – the bastard child of a spider, a H. G. Wells war machine and a…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.”

— Hannu Rajaniemi

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

— Hannu Rajaniemi