Laurens Bancroft : Power is a matter of influence.
“The past is relevant only as data.”
Takeshi Kovacs : Finding truth is more than a search for data. It’s an excavation of self. You have to keep going, no matter where it takes you. Because nothing can stay hidden forever.
“There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic.”
Takeshi Kovacs : Sometimes, belief isn’t about what we can see. It’s about what we can’t.
“Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.”
Takeshi Kovacs : Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn’t last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.
Reileen Kawahara : This is real power. Cutting away the things that make you weak one at a time.
Poe : From the sky above, there is always the mud below.
Quellcrist Falconer : At its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another, personal.
“I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.”
Takeshi Kovacs : Humanity has spread to the stars. We set out like ancient seafarers to explore the limitless ocean of space. But no matter how far we venture into the unknown, the worst monsters are those we bring with us.
“Reality is so flexible these days, it’s hard to tell who’s disconnected from it and who isn’t. You might even say it’s a pointless distinction.”
“Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.”
Takeshi Kovacs : The danger of living too many times: you forget to fear death.