To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.