"I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore."
- Orson Scott Card
"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."
"The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game."
"He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping...."
"I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you'..."
"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."
"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him"
"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."
"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."