As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Let’s fly away and live forever.
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
There is a myth that homosexuals are ‘born that way,’ and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.
You will learn to defeat the enemy.
You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you’re doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing.
There’s no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don’t, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn’t like it just doesn’t hang out with them.
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.