That’s why he hates you, because you didn’t suffer when he tried to punish you.
Don’t press her,” said Cooper. “If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.
We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.
When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.
By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...
The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. “There is no combat without movement,” Ender said.
You can’t alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.
What an unfriendly country,” said Noxon. “Different time, different place,” said Wheaton. “We think we’re a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don’t like your language or the way you look.
Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? ‘Of course,’ Ender said contemptuously. ‘I’m not as close to the floor as you are.
But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. He must believe, to the core of his soul, that he can only do what he and the other children work out for themselves. If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities.
Don’t we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don’t we try to frame it so they’ll choose as we think they should?
As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But.
Five chickens do not make a cow.
No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?
One minute Ender is the beginning and end of the world, the best chance for a great man that I’ll ever have a chance to find. The next minute, he’s a gay little boy who shamed me. You judge hi according to whether or not he’s useful to you.
As for Peter – we didn’t even suggest a meeting, and so he didn’t have a chance to tell us to go to hell.
Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.
The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.
Until you know that you’re tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don’t commit to battle.