# Quote — Dan Simmons, Endymion

> 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.”

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [Endymion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion.md)
- Page: 498
- 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/i-began-to-understand

## More from this book

> 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)

> Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion/information-is-always.md)