The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

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

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.