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Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

received its first phone call from heaven, Tess Rafferty

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound,...

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth...

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.- Ender

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.

Madness, and then illumination.

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes

The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. -SIDNEY HOOK

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most...

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

These Americans played with fire. Hydrogen bombs, megapower lasers, killer drones, shrunken micro-people…Americans were demon-raisers. Americans awakened technological demons they couldn't control,...

Sheikh Abd Rabbo said: Nessma love blows an hour that is atone for the bad winds of life

Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life. Naguib Mahfouz.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

God, they read a book, he thought, and they spout on forever.

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.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could...

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... {S}ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I...

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay...