"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."
- Orson Scott Card
"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."
"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."
"I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there."
"I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."
"He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other..."