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What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?
“Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― 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
“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
“The computers of the Hundred Worlds were hands and feet, eyes and ears to her. She spoke every language that had ever been committed to computers, and read every book in every library on every world. She learned that human beings had long been afraid that someone like her would come to exist; in all the stories she was hated, and her coming meant either her certain murder or the destruction of mankind. Even before she was born, human beings had imagined her, and, imagining her, slain her a thousand times.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
Sara’s 2024 Year in Books
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64 books
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