In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

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

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.