Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quintet Book 2)

by Orson Scott Card

Dona Cristã laughed a bit. “Oh, Pipo, I’d be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice.” “I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.”

Burn like fire

Was it something unavoidable, when strangers met, that the meeting had to be marked with blood?

murder first

“I want to die,” he said. “You comfort everybody else,” she whispered. “Who comforts you?” “You have to tell me so I can die.”

use human, of course, but they have also taken to using the new Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion. They refer to humans as framlings, and to pequeninos of other tribes as utlannings. Oddly, though, they refer to themselves as ramen, showing that they either misunderstand

exclusion