Quotes About Connection

Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

Will he always come between us? Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box? No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.

He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.

Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.

If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover.

Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros. ~Sel Menach

But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

I know you!' She insisted. 'No you don't. But that's all right, because I don't know me either, let alone you. We never understand anybody, not even ourselves.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en el que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero.

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.

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

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now. It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

It takes one evangelist to understand another.