Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That’s when parents know the least and care the most, so they’re more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they’re...
My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And
Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
Madness, and then illumination.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete ins...
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future....
Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains—a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they’re asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it’s firing off e...
Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?
Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.
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...