"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
- Orson Scott Card
"I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself."
"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."
"No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, a..."
"[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be bro..."
"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, b..."
"I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."
"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 p..."
"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." ..."