108 quotes found
“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, the...”
“Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they...”
“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?”
“Perhaps its impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show th...”
“Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?”
“But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.”
“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleepi...”
“Let's fly away and live forever”
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him ...”
“If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into f...”
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that y...”
“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”
“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
“The kid is scary.”
“Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.”
“He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.”
“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 ...”
“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong one...”
