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Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

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 bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

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

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.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

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

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

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.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

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

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

It's a game changer, not a game ender.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

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

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

I stole their future from them

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

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

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

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...

He had brought no possessions with him

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

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

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.

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.

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

Never believe a rumor of my death, ' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.

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

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

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

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

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.