Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

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