I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
Orson Scott CardHuman beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
Orson Scott CardHe walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.
Orson Scott Card