Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.
Ender grinned back. Teacher, he said. Do you have a name? Mazer Rackham, said the old man.
Early to bed and early to rise, Mazer intoned, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections...
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It w...
At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
And it came down to this: 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 understa...
All the way up to the surface, Valentine struggled to make sense of what had happened. She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of languag...
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly smal...
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—So why do I hate my life?
Saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.
Nobody ever wrote to me sayingyou know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!.....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intr...
Because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
You don't want to give God the credit because you don't think he exists. But if you're going to blame him for all the crap, kid, you got to give him credit for what grows from that fertilized soil.
Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the work we’ve done? The children we’ve raised? He looked pointedly at Olhado. What will i...
Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.
Wiggin really doesn't care as much about himself as he does about these other kids who aren't worth five minutes of his time.And yet this may be the very trait that makes everyone focus on him. Maybe...