Petra,' said Rackham, 'don't you understand that we love you children? All of you? We already had to send Ender away. We're sending them all away, except for you. Because we love you. Because we don't want any harm to you.

Besides, you only like the asteroid because it was named Eros and that's as close to sex as you've ever gotten.

Nafi knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to…

I've seen Austratlia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

I was sad to see you go Anywhere. To anyone. I was yours, is that it? I had to love you most, is that it? If I thought of the songhouse as home, you couldn't b…

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seve…

The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.