Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

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

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.