Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn’t think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn’t find such a place in himself.

Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan.

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.  I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.  She put her small hand on mine.  The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

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