None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
Let me tell you about gods, said Wiggin. No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you...
It will hurt. said Petra. But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
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 am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.
Do you think we're making a mistake? snapped the Bishop.
Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give the...
The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.
She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Inste...
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him t...
A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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...
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the...
I didn't want to hurt him! Ender cried. Why didn't he just leave me alone!
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are cau...
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.