Chapter 1
Ender spread his hands over the child-size keyboard near the edge of the desk and wondered what it would feel like to have hands as large as a grown-up's. They must feel so big and awkward, thick s...
Chapter 2
"Not a joke, a game. I can make you guys believe anything. I can make you dance around like puppets." (2.64)
Chapter 3
Like children fighting with grown-ups. (3.122)
Chapter 4
"Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." (4.83)
Chapter 5
The fear stayed, all through dinner as no one sat by him in the mess hall. The other boys were talking about things – the big scoreboard on one wall, the food, the bigger kids. Ender could only w...
Chapter 6
I’m a murderer even when I play. (6.120)
Chapter 7
"But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like – history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus." (7.10)
Chapter 8
“These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.” (8.126)
Chapter 9
"Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.""But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk...
Chapter 10
It wasn't to unify the rest of the group – in fact, it was divisive. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than e...
Chapter 11
"This is best for Ender, too. We're bringing him to his full potential." (11.10)
Chapter 12
He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. But Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led, and he performed splendid...
Chapter 13
He held up a limp hand. "See the strings?" (13.105)
Chapter 14
So, after wandering through the tunnels for a little while, he went to the mess hall and ate breakfast near a few marines who were telling dirty jokes that Ender could not begin to understand. (14....
Chapter 15
"You're wrong, Ender. You think you're grown up and tired and jaded with everything, but in your heart you're just as much a kid as I am.” (15.106)