Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. -Taleswapper
Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.
Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.
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...
Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
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...
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu.I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said...
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...
Come on, he said to Valentine one day. Let’s fly away and live forever.We can’t, she said. There are miracles even relativity can’t pull off, Ender.We have to go. I’m almost happy here.So, stay.I’ve l...
But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
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...
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And...
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
¿Lo ves? Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores, hacen juegos con la causa y el efecto, cuando el asunto es que hay períodos en los que el mundo cambia, y la voz precisa en el lugar preciso puede mover...
Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system
There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.
The seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, i...
All living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore...
You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend you...
You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like you want them to, Mother, you'll always feel betrayed. And because eventually everybody di...