Devon

“this temple of living cells on a frame of bone”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“There were not enough women among them, but they began to work out social patterns that would maximize reproduction and keep from having too many males without a hope of mating. Within a generation or two, if babies came in the usual proportions, half male and half female, the normal human pattern of monogamy could be restored.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“Maybe I stopped going to swimming because I was afraid of what would happen if, after months of treading water, it still didn’t work. Maybe I quit yoga because I was afraid of what would happen if I lost a ton of weight and that still didn’t fix my insides. I can’t afford therapy, but I can buy a sandwich.”
― Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“You’re just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there’s nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind