That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies, but as a tragic sisters, changed into foul...
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.
A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death.There is a...
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'We can't both be Alexander.'Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.
The loneliness of power.
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the...
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they wan...
In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.
I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.