"Come on," he said to Valentine one day. "Let's fly away and live forever."

"We can't," she said. "There are miracles even relativity can't pull off, Ender."

"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."

"So stay."

"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."


-- Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, last page

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