Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

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

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.