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

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.