If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

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

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.