Xenocide (Ender's Saga #3)

by Orson Scott Card

She was still a beautiful young woman, even with so many children.

have simply observed that she is so full of pain, she’s incapable of taking anyone else’s pain seriously.”

We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books.”

we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.”