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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other...

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

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.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

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...

If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...

I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.

the end of the world as they knew it.

And, age is not a competitive issue.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....

it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...

He did what he thought was right

{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?

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Across the road at the Faith Community Church a couple of dozen old people, come here to live in trailers and die in the sun, are holding a prayer sing. I cannot hear them and do not want to. What I...

The garden was still asleep. I caught it unawares. A garden that hasn't yet begun to think about people. Beautiful.

Can you tell me anything? It's a bioengineering firm. Bioengineering, Barney said. Well, there's the obvious … Which is? A DNA molecule. Oh, come on, Nedry said. Nobody could be analyzing a DNA...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.