Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

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

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

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.