Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quintet Book 2)

by Orson Scott Card

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

the cold wind of impatience might freeze him to the bone.

The pride of universal guilt.

Quim always seemed to take it so personally that the universe didn’t always work the way he wanted it to.

Maybe she couldn’t know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

“Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.”