So the I.F. is spying on Earth.Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.
…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping....
It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
The kid is scary.
Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.
Don't launch it, said Bean into his microphone, head down. Set it off inside your ship. God be with you.
But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
You seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you...
You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly.You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful.Memory does play tricks on us.No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful...
You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your...
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armi...
It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course
Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins, said Hamlet. When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.