"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."
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"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."
"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."
"Children inherit their parents' madness."
"You cannot capture warmth in a toast, but you can capture toast in a warmth."
"A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way."
"I understand, Bill. Because I tell myself a lot of stories to help me sleep at night. Stories about how Babe was my dearest friend, and I never betrayed her. Stories about how you and I had a great love, not just an occasional roll in the hay whenever she was out of town. Stories about how wonderful life was back then, when none of us told each other the truth, but so what? It was all so beautiful, wasn’t it? It was all so lovely and gracious. Not like it is now."
"If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?"
"F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope"
"People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true."
"Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way."
"The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods."
"Whatever you believe is true, is."
"... You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!"
"You studied and did your duty, believed and did what you were told with a promise of a life that is already here. Life is just over those hills. You were told you were on a journey; when all along your sorry ass was sitting inside that car analyzing every belief known to man. Your path will reveal the truth about you. Nobody cares what you believe; they care about who you are."
"It’s you and me that matters to me and you."
"Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it."
"But this is deception. It’s moving very fast, and just because you can’t see and feel it, doesn’t mean it’s not the truth."
"To be straight means to be loyal to the truth."
"If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths."
"I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses’s pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss."
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