“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. ”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
― Ender's Shadow
― Ender's Shadow
“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
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