“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It’s the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.”
― A Betrayal in Winter
― A Betrayal in Winter
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
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