Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Saga (Ender Quintet Book 3)

“I looked for perfection, and found something better.”

“I think you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”

the terrible lie has become the self-story, the tale that you must believe if you are to remain yourself.

I choose to live in a universe that has some hope in it.

there can be no greater honor to a parent than to have a child who is greater.”

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Even from their dreams, sometimes they make up out of that randomness something that illuminates everything.

saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we were, each individual one of us. He tried to discover our need and then supply it. He took responsibility for other people and it didn’t seem to matter to him how much it cost him. And in the end, while he could never make the Ribeira family norm

“Because the species has a better chance to survive if we do,” said Ender. “Because our genes require us to believe the story in order to enhance our ability to pass those genes on for many generations in the future. Because anybody who doesn’t believe the story begins to act in unproductive, uncooperative ways, and eventually the community, the he