She wants what everybody wants — to be loved and cared for, to be part of something beautiful and fine, to… — Orson Scott Card

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 did what they wanted, whatever it took to get what I wanted from them.

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.