108 quotes found
“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.”
“I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.”
“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...”
“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. I didn't come here because I wanted...”
“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.”
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.”
“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”
“From you I can learn things that nobody knows.”
“I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.”
“Everything we do means something.”
“Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.”
“Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.''I don't know how.''It could be an anal exam.”
“Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.”
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would ...”
“Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. "They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let you take anything you own." Ender grinned and didn't cry after all. "Think I should strip and go n...”
“I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anythin...”
“I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!”
“Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.”
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”
