He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.
Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. Never mock a tender heart, he said.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels v...
Nonsense, said Graff. Ender always has plans within plans.
It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and...
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, b...
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don’t believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always r...
He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rat...