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Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) QUOTES

Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) QUOTES

1 " The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

2 " I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

3 " But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

4 " The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

5 " Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

6 " You want to be a hero,” he repeated. “You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

7 " Be assured, I do not suffer from a sense of humor. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

8 " I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories of evolution or gravitation or somesuch, and how—although raised a devout Christian even before the reward of the cruciform—he had become an atheist while studying a terrestrial wasp that paralyzed some large species of spider, planted its embryo, and let the spider recover and go about its business until it was time for the hatched wasp larvae to burrow its way out of the living spider’s abdomen. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

9 " I’m hungry, Raul,” she said from the head of the stairs. “Want to go down and see what this old ship’s galley can whomp up for lunch? "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

10 " Designed from DNA to compute,” I said, appalled at the thought of Core machines being given the benefit of the doubt when it came to souls. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

11 " Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

12 " Doomed with enfeebled carcass to outstretch His loathed existence through ten centuries, "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

13 " As your priest,” says de Soya, “I will warn you again about the use of profanity. As your commanding officer, I order you to come up with as many surprises as you can to kill that spiked son of a bitch.” They "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

14 " The universe just does not give a shit. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

15 " The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

16 " Entropy is a bitch, "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

17 " Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

18 " I miei pensieri erano come mercurio... scivolavano sempre via, prima che potessi afferrarli o sagomarli in forma coerente. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

19 " If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller. "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

20 " Father thought that the first stage of human happiness was a ‘fellowship with essence, "

― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)