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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots. But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.

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

Madness, and then illumination.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

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

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

The enemy gate is down.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.