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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

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

I said all that because these things are possible. And because they’re possible we have to think of them so they don’t surprise us later. We have to think of them so that if the worst does come, we’ll already know how to live in that universe.”