You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

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

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

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.