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“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

“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, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

“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.”

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”

“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.”

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

“Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit.”

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

“Madness, and then illumination.”

“Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.”

“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”