Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.