Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?Yes, she said.That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea...
They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would the...
Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there,...
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter.
Issib wasn't thrilled to see him. I'm busy and don't need interruptions. This is the household library, said Nafai. This is where we always come to do research. See? You're interrupting already. Look,...
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to...
I didn't want to see you.They told me.I was afraid that I'd still love you.I hoped that you would.
I didn't want to hurt him! Ender cried. Why didn't he just leave me alone!
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
Because human nature never changes.
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
Dread is the first and the strongest types of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes...
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
You were baptized?My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it. The Bishop hel...
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.