Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
Stories are invented as you go along...
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.
You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels v...
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.