Stephenie Meyer, The Host Quotes
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.
Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?
Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.
After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.
Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.
There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen.
Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology
Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?
Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
