Dan Simmons, Hyperion Quotes

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

You have to live to really know things, my love

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.