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.


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If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
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It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ...
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr...
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Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena...
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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...
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Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t...
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
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And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
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Stories are invented as you go along...
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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, ...
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I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha...
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The piggies were not to be disturbed-
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Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if ...
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I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war
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We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world o...
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I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say...
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The computer is also not famous for having mercy.
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Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
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I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his...
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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
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The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos...
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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...
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Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ...
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You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
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I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
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I thought commanders could order anything.”
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but i...
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
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Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
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That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...
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We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shor...
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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 i...
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When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
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Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
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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 ...
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He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
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Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officer...
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I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
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I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
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At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo...
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