Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an urban Thoreau) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of work, pr...

You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels, said Mirelle somberly. At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself.Lirael listened, won...

You are safe, Lorraine. You will always be safe from me. You are the one person in this world I could never harm for any reason.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what...

Wedding song (reprise)But you and I, through burning plains, through darkness of the earth, affirm the world, its people, the heavens that gave them birth, the breath that passes between us, this new...

Those around me persist in not understanding that I have never been able to live in a real world of people and things. And that is why I have this irrefutable need to escape and become involved in adv...

They think I’m not entirely ‘grounded in reality’, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back prog...

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the p...

There was both love and despair in his voice.He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that...

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.

The imposter's long, sturdy traveling cloak covered plain, dark, modest traveling clothes. Like the duchess, she was tall and well-rounded, and she spoke with the duchess's aristocratic accent. Also l...

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.