The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Stop the blame game; you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!
There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.
I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!
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.
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 along―the same person that I am today.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
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.
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
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.
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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.
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.
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 boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
