She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy.

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I&#39;d think, Where did they get that? I didn&#39;t read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That&#39;s kind of an interesting idea.

In a world that was not easy for Alice to bear or understand, flies were the final and malicious burden laid upon her.

Written By John Steinbeck

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