ender

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don__ want to go through what you__e been through to get there.

In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

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.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

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

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.