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!

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.