“What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.”
― Shadow of the Hegemon
― Shadow of the Hegemon
“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
― Ender's Shadow
― Ender's Shadow
“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
“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”
― Sarah
― Sarah
“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
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