You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.
You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn’t a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
That was great. They’re calling him Buttwatcher now. Just Watcher in front of the teachers, but everybody knows what he’s watching.
So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended.I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best...
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore...
Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.
It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but t...
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
I divide officers into four classes—the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite...
I am a creature of chemicals.
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
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....
Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
Someone's senta loving notein lines of returning geeseand as the moon fillsmy western chamberas petals danceover the flowing streamagain I think of youthe two of usliving a sadnessaparta hurt that can...
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor, the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn...