Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.
I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.
