Quotes from book
Hyperion

Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos. The plot of the novel features multiple time-lines and characters. It follows a similar structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The next book in the series was The Fall of Hyperion, published in 1990.
“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 431)
“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Source: Hyperion
Context: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
“Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)
“There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.”
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 433)