Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.