“Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.”

“Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in a pretty and well preserved package...But rather, to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming...WOW, WHAT A RIDE!!!”

“For there's sweeter restOn a truelove's breastThan any other where.”

“Mother had told me her favorite story about a little Protestant lady who, on being told that the candle at the high altar in St. Peter's had not been out for a thousand years, pursed her lips and extinguished it, saying, "Well, it's out now.”

“Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?”

“I need you to go talk to a girl who may have some information about Emma.""Where is she?""Someplace you're not going to want to go."(...)"I give up. Where?""Institution 37."I felt a hitch in my breathing. I leaned back against the wall."Could I pick hell instead?”

“This is so ..." I can't find the word."Wonderful? Amazing?" the Ender nurse offers."Bizarre," I say as I watch the lips of the Starter move in the mirror.”