I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will… — Orson Scott Card

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

"'Waterloo was won,'" quoted Rackham, "'on the playing fields of Eton.'"

"What the hell does that mean?" asked Carn Carby. "You never even went to Eton."

"It was an analogy," said Rackham. "If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated."

If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.