Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

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

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

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