Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.