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

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.