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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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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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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we ...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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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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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

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That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politi...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