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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.