Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.

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

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

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

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

You're bigger than I remember,' she said stupidly.'You too,' he said. 'I also remember that you were beautiful.'Memory does play tricks on us.'No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

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.