All were successful,and felt like failures.Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:None,or maybe one:Dumb...
I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some...
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.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-or up, I suppose-replacing other people in the process.
He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look.This is time travel, he said, narrowing an eye to set the lens. Because the light is old. We're seeing back in time.No,...
She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.
In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.
In God's name, she thought, let the more loving one be someone else; for me it is beyond endurance.
I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.
"Don't worry, we're not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we're not letting her out from behind this bar. {Aimee} Yeah, Prisoners R Us. {Tory}"
the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.
We will do what I always do in such situations, what I have already done a hundred times, which everyone who really knows the mountains does automatically. - Meaning? - catapult.
Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight." "Heaven wouldn't have either of us
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.
What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd come home and take over Earth.OK, not that.
We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be sib born for something as well
Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a...
Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody's in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in...
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them,...
For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the lowest depths tenaciously resists the pressures of necessity and...
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
In this twilight they were more imagined than seen, but I felt surrounded by the practitioners of a sacred mediocrity, an elegant mediocrity cloistering inaccessible tortures. I don't know quite how...
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
