Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

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

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.