# Quote — Dan Simmons, Endymion

> “Entropy is a bitch,” I said.
>
> “Now, now,” said Aenea from where she was leaning on the terrace wall. “Entropy can be our friend.”
>
> “When?” I said.
>
> She turned around so that she was leaning back on her elbows. The building behind her was a dark rectangle, serving to highlight the glow of her sunburned skin. “It wears down empires,” she said. “And does in despotisms.”

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [Endymion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion.md)
- Page: 357
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#Endymion_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/entropy-is-a-bitch

## More from this book

> I began to understand. “A Faustian bargain...,” I said.
>
> “The Faustian bargain,” said the girl. “All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.”

p. 498 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/i-began-to-understand.md)

> The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

p. 344 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/the-universe-is-indifferent.md)

> Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/why-am-i-seeking.md)