I have been a slave. But at least in all that time I knew my own heart. I knew what I truly thought even as I… — Orson Scott Card

He chose this world as his home, not just because there was a family that needed him, but also because in this place he did not have to be entirely a member of the human race... He could be part of something larger than mere humanity.

I have a sense of comfortableness in love; it isn't grand sweeping passions that I expected to feel.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.