because if you canโt kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
Orson Scott CardScience fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.
Orson Scott CardAn eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
Orson Scott CardThat is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds
Orson Scott Card