Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos ❲Verified Source❳

We built it. Not as a machine. As a character . The villain of a story we could not stop telling.

Do you know who I am? he subvocalized on a band I barely heard. I was the poet. Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos

He smiled. It was a terrible expression. “I am the one who could have stopped it. I chose not to.” We built it

The Shrike’s hand is on my shoulder now. The blades are warm. Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos