Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.
Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. T...
For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, said John [Adams]. Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
What are you reading? Polonius asked.Words, words, words, said Hamlet.And what's the subject?Lesser than the king, but still not nothing.It took Polonius a moment to realize he had answered another me...
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, wh...
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, th...
He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
The piggies were not to be disturbed
Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...
Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
Because human nature never changes.
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?