108 quotes found
“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own ...”
“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.”
“All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.”
“I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanatio...”
“A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.”
“It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”
“Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.”
“We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.”
“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”
“So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.”
“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him”
“As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.”
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.”
“I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.”
“It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.”
“You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.”
“In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.”
“The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.”
“In my experience, influence is power.”
“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.”
