“Being a hero of my own life -- is that too much to ask?”
“It is perhaps too much to ask of hero worshippers that they peer back of the hero and consider the principal factor that shaped him for glory--that is, whoever it was that had charge of his grubby little boyhood.”
“Too many heroes in my life. All gone.”
“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”
“Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own."~Val”
“Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much.”