"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."
- Orson Scott Card
"You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful.""Memory does play tricks on us.""No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what be..."
"As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they ..."
"The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy."
"But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confide..."
"We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,"
"For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
"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..."
"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."