M.M. Scott Quotes

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

I am a creature of chemicals.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.

You will learn to defeat the enemy.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.