nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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

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.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

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.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?