Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.