# Quote — Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

> Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope—not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [The Rise of Endymion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion.md)
- Page: 10
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion/each-of-them

## More from this book

> If one is to observe, M. Endymion, one must be in the proper place to observe.

p. 701 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion/if-one-is-to-observe.md)

> “One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,” he says, “is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.”

p. 674 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion/one-of-the.md)

> There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.

p. 578 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/the-rise-of-endymion/there-are-no-ghosts.md)