Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.
Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear—their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.
No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.
Love is random; fear is inevitable.
Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.
Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn’t mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.
Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.
Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.
In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's b...
I've watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God.Then who are you?The personnel officer who hired God.
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.
I don’t care if I pass your test, I don’t care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won’t let you beat me unfairly—I’ll beat you unfairly first.
I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.