I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?