Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.