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ender's game | notes
May. 31st, 2012 11:55 amAge 6;
"Since adults always said it when it was going to hurt; he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
"And Peter won't hate me anymore. I'll come home and show him that the monitor's gone, and he'll see that I didn't make it either. That I'll just be a normal kid now, like him."
"It was not his fault he was a Third. It was the government's idea, they were the ones who authorized it -- how else could a Third like Ender have got into school? [...] The experiment entitled Andrew Wiggin hadn't worked out after all."
"They were all wondering if he (Stilson) was dead. Ender however, was trying to figure out a way to forestall vengeance. To keep them from taking him in a pack tomorrow. I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight every day and it will get worse and worse."
"Take my monitor away and I am just like Peter."
"I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you. I'm sorry sorry sorry."
"Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. [...] You took away the monitor, I had to take care of myself, didn't I?"
"Ender almost said, I want to. But he held his tongue. [...] But to leave Mother & Father, and above all, to leave Valentine. And become a soldier. Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."
"Since adults always said it when it was going to hurt; he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
"And Peter won't hate me anymore. I'll come home and show him that the monitor's gone, and he'll see that I didn't make it either. That I'll just be a normal kid now, like him."
"It was not his fault he was a Third. It was the government's idea, they were the ones who authorized it -- how else could a Third like Ender have got into school? [...] The experiment entitled Andrew Wiggin hadn't worked out after all."
"They were all wondering if he (Stilson) was dead. Ender however, was trying to figure out a way to forestall vengeance. To keep them from taking him in a pack tomorrow. I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight every day and it will get worse and worse."
"Take my monitor away and I am just like Peter."
"I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you. I'm sorry sorry sorry."
"Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. [...] You took away the monitor, I had to take care of myself, didn't I?"
"Ender almost said, I want to. But he held his tongue. [...] But to leave Mother & Father, and above all, to leave Valentine. And become a soldier. Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."
