Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and d...
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. Yo...
I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.
All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the w...
Let's fly away and live forever
In my dreams, said Ender, I'm never sure whether I'm really me.
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.
From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life p...
Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway
Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because...
I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.
For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.