Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

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.

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

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