“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
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