Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Madness, and then illumination.