Quotes from Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.