“Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for stretch...”

“God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.”

“She didnt want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didnt want to be the vanguardof destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her ...”

“Wehumanitydidnt come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one h...”

“He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. Ill be damned.Possibly. But not today, I think.”

“If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.”

“Laches faded away, leaving Miriam standing facing Hyperion, the Metigen who had orchestrated the slaughter of over fifty million people a short year ago.There were limits to even deals with the dev...”

“Noah gave an exaggerated eye roll. Just out of curiosity, is this the stupidest thing youve ever done?It wouldnt be fair to rank them. Caleb gunned the engine.”

“Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for who...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”

“No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.”

“We've all changed; shaped by circumstances we've been thrust into, molded by the choices we've made.”

“Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.”