It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The enemy gate is down.

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

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

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.

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