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As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but...more

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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 think it’s impos...more

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

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He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again ...more

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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 becaus...more

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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.

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

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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.

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In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good...more

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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 ...more

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

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There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

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