There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.