What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.
What am I now, Alai?Still good.At what?At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe.I don't want to go to the end of the universe.So where do you want to go? Th...
We're an ecological disaster.Exactly, said the expendable.
We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has th...
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of...
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themsel...
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they'r...
Paciencia: Hay gente que hace cosas por miedo al látigo. Hay gente que hace cosas por temor a perder sus familias o sus vidas. Hay gente a la cual es posible comprar y vender. ¿Acaso no son esclavos?-...
Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wan...
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn’t have known what they meant.
Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I onl...
[Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.
Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin? For both of us, Val. Peter, you’re twelve years old. I’m ten. They have a word for people our age....
Oh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier.No greatness, then.Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day.Not in the history books, sai...