"Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave"
"You can love someone so much," he thought. "But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
"It had been all right as long as they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.
"Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there--watching and waiting."
"Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not."
"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."
"We are the choices we make."
"Hey," says Hayden, "I'm Switzerland: neutral as can be, and also good with chocolate."
But this isn't how it feels to be a bugger, thought Ender. They don't wear this face like a mask, it is their face. On their home worlds, do the buggers put on human masks, and play?
"I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet."
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
"Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth."
"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
Jeg er skikkelig dårlig på å lese bøker om igjen, føler på en måte at det er så mange bøker jeg vil lese at jeg ikke har tid. Men akkurat nå leser jeg Ender's Game igjen, bare fordi jeg ville tilbake til verdenen. Harry Potter serien, og bøker av Klaus Hagerup har blitt lest om igjen også.
Leser så og si bare på engelsk. Ellers er det jo norsk. Svensk og dansk tror jeg at jeg hadde klart, men jeg har ikke prøvd ennå. Kanskje tysk også, men det hadde i alle fall gått sakte!