Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen.Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
So she retreated into herself, rebuilt the damaged pathways of her mind, explored long-unvisited memories, wandered among the trillions of human lives that were open to her observation, read over the...
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.But it keeps not ending.So far, so good.
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.''About right,' Bean replied.
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.
It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones,...
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off.
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about God, but he hadn't figured it out yet, what God even was. It was like, she wanted to give God credit for every good thin...
A broken clock is right two times a day.
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.