I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.