I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

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 because they're absolutely stupid.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

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

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

You're a machine, " she murmured when he swept kisses across her jaw and over her cheek. "Only for you, sweetheart.

I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

THIS QUOTE CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM UNFORGIVEN"This whole time, I've been in Hell?" She stepped away from Cam, out of the spotlight and into darkness."Because of you.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.