You’re cultural supremacists to the core. You’ll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn’t a chance in the world you’ll notice when they have something to teach you.
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself.
It’s as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
I am a creature of chemicals.
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.
Order and disorder’, said the speaker, ’they each have their beauty.
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.
He could see Bonzo’s anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.
We spend our lives guessing at what’s going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we ‘understand.’ Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Darkness bound them closer than light.
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better – So why do I hate my life?
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.