America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

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

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.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.