As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
Joie," he said with his lips hovering over mine. "What?" I felt my heart flutter. "Shut up," he muttered and then he kissed me.
Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.
An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.
There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.
Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game.
Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.
I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.
To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.
