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“That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.”
“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship...”
“You made them hate me." Said Ender"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop ...”
“That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.”
“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...”
“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.”
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all alongthe same person that I am today.”
“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.”
“I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be r...”
“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldnt hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the futur...”
“Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.”
“We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,”
“When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.”
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”
“It isnt the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution....”
“That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards...”
“It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.”
“I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming...”
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
