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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through ...more

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Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

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As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but...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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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be s...more

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The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those ...more

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The kid is scary.

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

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

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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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It’s there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree o...more

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And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the bo...more

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They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes should ever have.

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It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.