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.

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

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.