That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

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

Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.