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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 33aa559 | So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.' 'If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3822bef | In my experience, influence is power. | power | Orson Scott Card | |
| ac69d08 | I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it! | tricked killer | Orson Scott Card | |
| 25b67cd | It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 605c60d | Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1798373 | Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf." | deaf justice | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5652bcf | He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far. | bean ender anguish hiding isolation burden | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6ef1d62 | Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings. | killing genius humans | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4cc0e3a | No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b6f4d38 | If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1fcafdc | We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7d02a8b | I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 000f6dd | I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took responsibility for other people and it didn't seem to matter to him how much it cost him. And in the end, while he could never make the Ribeira family normal, he gave us peace and pride and identity. Stability. He married Mother and was kind to he.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bf651cc | A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured. | young-adult reputation science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| aad77d8 | It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them. So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings and work with them like a perfect machine, as perfect as the buggers. But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 38fb8f1 | Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. | fun games | Brian Jacques | |
| 7411972 | Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful. | future whatif useful what-if | Brian Jacques | |
| 265dcf7 | Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others. You are brave, Matthias. Already you have done great things for one so young. I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse, but even I can see the courage and leadership in you. A burning brand shows the way, and each day your flame grows brighter. There is none like you, Matthias. You have the sign of greatness upon .. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 62c3f0b | There's a goose asleep in the rain! | Roger Hargreaves | ||
| bdf3ec3 | We are all only mortal," said the Master, even more slowly. "We do only what we can do. All the Elemental priests have certain teachings in common: one of them is that everyone, every human, every bird, badger and salamander, every blade of grass and every acorn, is doing the best it can. This is the priests' definition of mortality: the circumstance of doing what one can is that of doing one's best. Only the immortals have the luxury of fu.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| db76869 | Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 35057ca | but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other." | humor naps | Robin McKinley | |
| 69aa5df | It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c9f84d4 | I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| de22d78 | I am a knight of Solamnia. I am the hand of Paladine, of Kiri-Jolith and of Habbakuk on this world. You are on Krynn. You are mine, Queen of Darkness. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 4a77a3b | Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. | life survival | Dick Francis | |
| 7db7abd | I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)" | Lynne Truss | ||
| 269b491 | So what happened to the comma in this process? Well, between the 16th century and the present day, it became a kind of scary grammatical sheepdog. As we shall shortly see, the comma has so many jobs as a 'separator' (punctuation marks are traditionally either 'separators' or 'terminators') that it tears about on the hillside of language, endlessly organising words into sensible groups and making them stay put: sorting and dividing; circling.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| e11505e | No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 55626d6 | I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f99e8cb | Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had voluntarily sworn to have no truck with vampires, and here, attached to his bosom, spread over it and enfolded by one arm, was a greenish hairy thing, like a mat - a loathsome great vampire of the most poisonous kind, no doubt. 'I should never have believed it of him: his sacred oath in the morning watch and now he stuffs .. | humour | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 72bd317 | Jack, you have debauched my sloth. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 152632e | He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 0142aa1 | Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above-- Oh, God. She closed her eyes. She'd been looking at his--Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if she'd touched it. "Fiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do." Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 07cb1ab | This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment. | religious-nuts unconstitutional republic separation-of-church-and-state | Gore Vidal | |
| 6c80276 | Eventually all things are known. And few matter. | politics privacy | Gore Vidal | |
| f4b276e | With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly on | freedom education false-reality public-schools political-parties democrats republicans government power consumerism | Gore Vidal | |
| 07734ed | Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 77233cb | Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought | punks punk-rock | Henning Mankell | |
| 17153fa | I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I learnt something very inmortant. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment i boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. | Alex Garland | ||
| ee13bb7 | The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. | pop-culture press | Nora Ephron | |
| 1c2f403 | You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy. | Nora Ephron | ||
| c27ce13 | security is not having things; it's handling things. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 10f0dfa | Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others. | Anthony Burgess |