This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

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

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

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

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.