That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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 armies. They do not tell us the truth.
Good people aren’t good because they never cause harm to others. They’re good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
It’s what I was born for, isn’t it? If I don’t go, why am I alive?
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
Good people can’t out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can’t think of.
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.
A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don’t have to seek them out and spend time with them.
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
We’re like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
If you lay a hand on me I’ll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it’ll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.