I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.
I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before.
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not true because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about...
I spend all my time thinking things through. It’s acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?
I never went to the priests to confess, she said, because I knew they would despise me for my sin. Yet when you named all my sins today, I could bear it because I knew you didn’t despise me. I couldn’...
I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.
I don’t care if I pass your test, I don’t care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won’t let you beat me unfairly—I’ll beat you unfairly first.
I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.- Ender
I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.
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.
History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.
He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without...
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
Ender knew that at this moment he might be able to walk out of the room and end the battle. The way he had escaped from the battleroom after drawing blood. But the battle would only be fought again. A...
Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That wa...