“But how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely—those were questions whose answers could not be found.”

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

“How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?”

“When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.”

“Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin”

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

“Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.”