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...
You lied to us
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...
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 have influence, but no power.In my experience, influence is power.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the...
In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.
If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into foul...
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.
I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.
I am only what I remember.
He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to...
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let you take anything you own. Ender grinned and didn't cry after all. Think I should strip and go naked?A...
A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you...
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.