Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

by Dan Simmons

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

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.

So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”

‘I attribute no definitive and absolute value to the various constructions of man. I believe that they will disappear, recast in a new whole that we cannot yet conceive. At the same time I admit that they have an essential provisional role—that they are necessary, inevitable phases which we (we or the race) must pass through in the course of our metamorphosis.

Life is brutal that way … the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.