Will he always come between us?Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.
Well, I’m your man. I’m the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I’m your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make...
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.
To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.
There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.
Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works...
The ways of love are strange and hard:The love you want is always barred;The love you have you want to change.The ways of love are hard and strange.
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their o...
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.
The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition. You mean it isn't ugly?
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to...
Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again...
Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn’t know how to handle themselves in battle.
So what do we do now? asked Alai. The bugger war’s over, and so’s the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now? We’re kids, said Petra. They’ll probably make us go to school....
So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserabl...
Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.