Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, wh...
Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when...
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.
It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to sel...
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
The kid is scary.
I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. Th...
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards fr...