The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t 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 future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the tr...
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. It made him a better soldier then he would ever hav...
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
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.
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; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters,...
It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.
He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
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 naked?" Alai laughed, too. On impulse Ender hugged him...
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.
