"Only those who make a conscious decision to seek the Shrike may be counted among the pilgrims." Chp 1, p. 15.

"Saved from certain death in war to be delivered to certain death at the hands of the Shrike." Chp 1. p. 16.

"Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us may hold a piece to a puzzle no one else has been able to solve since humankind first landed on Hyperion." Chp. 1, p. 22.

"Mathematically, your daughter's body resembles a time reversed equation...or perhaps an object which has passed through a rapidly spinning black hole. We don't know how this has happened or why the physically impossible is occurring in this instance, M. Weintraub. We just don't know enough." Chp. 4, p. 271.

"If nothing else, Hyperion is the key mystery of our age-physical and poetic-and it is quite...