That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff

You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly.You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful.Memory does play tricks on us.No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me— to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.