You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.

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

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.