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“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; th...”
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs meto find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender,...”
“When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.”
“That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me...”
“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.”
“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...”
“We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,”
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”
“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.”
“So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.”
“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.”
“He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each ot...”
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender...”
