While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?You answered...I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to...
He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other...
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.
It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course
When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
I will never hurt you.I will always help you.If you are hungryIll give you my food.If you are frightenedI am your friend.I love you now.And love does not end.
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, said John [Adams]. Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American a...
The devil takes his victories, the man replied, wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.
Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. T...
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, th...
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
What are you reading? Polonius asked.Words, words, words, said Hamlet.And what's the subject?Lesser than the king, but still not nothing.It took Polonius a moment to realize he had answered another me...