M.M. Scott Quotes
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.
Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.
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.
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.