Devon

“She was copious, her sap-filled veins, her skeleton of wood, her tingling leaves that bathed in light, her roots that tapped into seas of water salted with the stuff of life.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“as you look up at these towering mound-people,”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“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

“It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to America based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” And we won’t go into the way Australian colonists were selected!”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile