Julia

“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted us all to bits and that would be that.” “We didn’t evolve from neanderthals,” said Bean. “Well, it’s a good thing we have that little fact squared away,” said Petra.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I’m not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“You’re a strange kind of boy,” said Achilles. “I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission,” said Suriyawong. “But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“To have Achilles’s gratitude was clearly a terminal disease.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets