Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.
Madness, and then illumination.
I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.
I want to see the king, I said, after explaining who I was.Wonderful, said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. I'm glad for you.That was all, and apparently he m...
As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. B...
I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.
Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himsel...
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their...
Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
You underestimate yourself.
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai.What?About your having diarrhea.For you I'd get dysentery.Now that's friendship.
Test can't messure what really matters.