It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

You will learn to defeat the enemy.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.