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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be s...more

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Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People sho...more

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Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

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I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his...more

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It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, ...more

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If only we could have talked to you, the hive-queen said in Ender's words. But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as e...more

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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried b...more

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

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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 r...more

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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. Y...more

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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was t...more

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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 ...more