Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

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

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.