Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quintet Book 2)

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

indelible.

obeisance.”

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

“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.”

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