Quotes from book

Ender's Shadow

“… the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.”

“You underestimate yourself.”

“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.”

“So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.

My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.”

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”

“I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.”