He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.
Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. -Taleswapper
Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of th...
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
Ela reached out for Grego. He refused to go to her. Instead he did exactly what Ender expected, what he had prepared for. Grego turned in Ender’s relaxed grip, flung his arms around the neck of the sp...
Dona Crista laughed a bit. Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice.I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the pe...
Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes.So God uses wicked people as his tools?Go...
Darkness bound them closer than light.
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be ferti...
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore....
But I am designed to last forever, said the expendable, if not interfered with.Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish. W...
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine fo...
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you do...
Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system
You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something...