You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.