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Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your coura...more

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We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took mos...more

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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

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That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and...more

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The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It...more

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I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do t...more

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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politi...more