Ender in Exile

Nobody has control of anything," said Petra. "We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

Sometimes you don't need to say a thing," said O'Connor. "And sometimes a man has no time for tea

In the real world, irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur

I fear that the lesson I taught you first was the one you learned the best: that you are always alone, that no one will ever help you, that whatever must be done, only you can do.

If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person.

You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it.

"You can't be happy if you're pretending all the time." Well, his life certainly didn't contradict that statement. He was pretending all the time, and he certainly was not happy.

"So maybe you can grow up to be happy without having to pretend."

think about him all the time," said Alessandra. "I dream of him every night. If that's being in love, they need a pill to cure it.

There is no pleasure so simple that somebody won't take it away just to hurt you!