Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today can be traced back to authors who were writing before the publishing categories existed. From among the readers in the twenties and thirties who loved any or all of these authors arose the first generation of “science fiction writers”, who knew themselves to be continuing in a trail that had been blazed by giants.
Cuando conoces de verdad a alguien, no puedes odiarle. Tal vez sea que no puedes conocer a nadie de verdad hasta que dejas de odiar.
Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.
From now on, as far as you’re concerned, Dink Meeker is God.’ ‘Then who are you?’ ‘The personnel officer who hired God.
Thus I began to realize that, as it is, Ender’s Game disturbs some people because it challenges their assumptions about reality. In fact, the novel’s very clarity may make it more challenging, simply because the story’s vision of the world is so relentlessly plain. It was important to her, and to others, to believe that children don’t actually think or speak the way the children in Ender’s Game think and speak.
Everything we do means something.
Illness or adultery, Alvin figured ignorance worked about as well in both cases. Not knowing just meant it was going to get worse.
I sold my brother,” Valentine said, “and they paid me for it.
You don’t understand,” he said. “Yes I do.” “No you don’t. I don’t want to beat Peter.” “Then what do you want?” “I want him to love me.” She had no answer. As far as she knew, Peter didn’t love anybody. Ender said nothing more. Just lay there.
There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.
Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.
I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.
If there’s a problem, you fix it. You don’t set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.
In Valentine’s experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles.
If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.
I’ve learned all I’m ever going to learn from you.
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.
From you I can learn things that nobody knows.
So plans of attack, what good are they then? We try, we do what we can, but what really counts is what you do when command breaks down.
It was possible, wasn’t it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he was willing to weaken himself before her in order to win her love.