Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, b...
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himsel...
Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. Never mock a tender heart, he said.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rat...
The piggies were not to be disturbed
Let me tell you about gods, said Wiggin. No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you...
It will hurt. said Petra. But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. B...
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
I want to see the king, I said, after explaining who I was.Wonderful, said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. I'm glad for you.That was all, and apparently he m...
Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give the...
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him t...
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai.What?About your having diarrhea.For you I'd get dysentery.Now that's friendship.
I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it