Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.
No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.
Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn’t mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
Isn’t it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend...
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if somet...
I've watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.
I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God.Then who are you?The personnel officer who hired God.
I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell m...
I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.
I have begged and she hasn't answered. The whales are swimming deep inside me and she doesn't help. I need help. All the monsters in the world are inside me instead of outside me. I've been tricked an...
I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless.It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of the colonization program. Ruthlessness was necessary but wins no votes.But this is not our...
I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Human beings are just machines, Petra knew that, machines that do what you want them to do, if you only know the levers to pull. And no matter how complex people might seem, if you just cut them off f...
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger...
Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn’t think of any jokes, and none of theirs see...