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“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time”
“I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I d...”
“And now the bad Mommy was here – outside his window. With a little whimper, he ran back to the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers over his head.Good Mommy was gone now…and bad Mommy had come to ...”
“I told you. I’ve been watching.” She twirled, her arms outstretched. “Watching, watching, watching.”
“My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.”
“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”
“I tramp the perpetual journeyMy signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man ...”
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him ...”
“I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.”
“You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”
“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone sai...”
“You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you.”
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.”
“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are m...”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
“-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I re...”
“In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.”
“You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.”
“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”
“Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
