Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

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

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.