Quotes from book

Ender's Game

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

“Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.'
Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.”

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

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

“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 for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”

“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.”

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”