Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.