Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow Quotes
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.
These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.
You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.