Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

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

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.

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

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