If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
I looked for perfection, and I found something better.
I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.
I am only what I remember.
Human beings remain grubs all the lives.
History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.
He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without...
He lay in bed staring upward into the darkness. On the bunk above him, he could hear Peter turning and tossing restlessly. Then Peter slid off the bunk and walked out of the room. Ender heard the hush...
Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.
Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I
Ender Wiggin isn’t a killer. He just wins—thoroughly. If anybody’s going to be scared, let it be the buggers. Makes you almost feel sorry for them, knowing Ender’s going to be coming after them.
Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most...
But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It’s so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is...
And you don’t understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior...