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[…] jeg vet det er en rar ting å nevne, men det er slik jeg husker dem fra den dagen, at de var så friske i kinnene da de kom inn. De så ut sånn som tenåringer gjør etter å ha vært på fjelltur mot sin vilje. All den energien der, all den sunnheten de obsternasig har latt seg eksponeres for. Gleden i ansiktet som de forsøker å skjule, for dagen som likevel har vært fantastisk.

[…] jeg håpet han sa at det hadde gått i vase for meg, men at filmen fortsatt ville kunne vises i sin helhet på et senere tidspunkt, ingen vits i å be om å få pengene refundert. Det krevdes bare tålmodighet på denne kinoen, maskinister som ikke gikk inn på pauserommet like etter at filmen var snurret i gang, men som ble stående, sittende inne i kontrollrommet, i tilfelle.

Og den lange kjøreturen fikk hodet til å klarne opp litt etter litt, tekniske feil ble reparert og med det kom også alt jeg hadde klart å holde i sjakk hele kvelden, tilbake igjen, snek seg innpå meg gjennom vinduet, hjalp ikke at jeg rullet det opp igjen, det satte seg i bakhodet som en altfor klok ugle som på død og liv ustanselig skulle minne meg på hvor fantastiske klok den var.

Josef Mazzini often traveled alone and mostly on foot. For him, walking made the world not smaller but larger, so large that he finally disappeared in it.

"Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave"

"You can love someone so much," he thought. "But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

"It had been all right as long as they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

"Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there--watching and waiting."

"Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not."

"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

"We are the choices we make."

"Hey," says Hayden, "I'm Switzerland: neutral as can be, and also good with chocolate."

But this isn't how it feels to be a bugger, thought Ender. They don't wear this face like a mask, it is their face. On their home worlds, do the buggers put on human masks, and play?

"I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet."

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.