# Quote — Dan Simmons, Endymion

> I realized that night the import and the terrible difficulty in the task ahead of me—in keeping this child safe from the sharp edges of a strange and indifferent universe.
>
> I think that is was on this alien and storm-tossed night that I first understood what it might be like to be a parent.

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [Endymion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/endymion.md)
- Page: 262
- 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-realized-that

## 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)