"Orson Scott Card - Ender's Saga 01 - Ender's Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Card Orson Scott)

"You're all talk," Valentine said. "You don't mean any of it."

"I don't?"

"And do you know why you don't mean it?" Valentine asked. "Because you want to
be in government someday. You want to be elected. And they won't elect you if
your opponents can dig up the fact that your brother and sister both died in
suspicious accidents when they were little. Especially because of the letter
I've put in my secret file, which will be opened in the event of my death."

"Don't give me that kind of crap," Peter said.

"It says, I didn't die a natural death. Peter killed me, and if he hasn't
already killed Andrew, he will soon. Not enough to convict you, but enough to
keep you from ever getting elected."

"You're his monitor now," said Peter. "You better watch him, day and night.
You better be there."

"Ender and I aren't stupid. We scored as well as you did on everything. Better
on some things. We're all such wonderfully bright children. You're not the
smartest, Peter, just the biggest."

"Oh, I know. But there'll come a day when you aren't there with him, when you
forget. And suddenly you'll remember, and you'll rush to him, and there he'll be
perfectly all right. And the next time you won't worry so much, and you won't
come so fast. And every time, he'll be all right. And you'll think that I
forgot. Even though you'll remember that I said this, you'll think that I
forgot. And years will pass. And then there'll be a terrible accident, and I'll
find his body, and I'll cry and cry over him, and you'll remember this
conversation, Vally, but you'll be ashamed of yourself for remembering, because
you'll know that I changed, that it really was an accident, that it's cruel of
you even to remember what I said in a childhood quarrel. Except that it'll be
true. I'm gonna save this up, and he's gonna die, and you won't do a thing, not
a thing. But you go on believing that I'm just the biggest."

"The biggest asshole," Valentine said.

Peter leaped to his feet and started for her. She shied away. Ender pried off
his mask. Peter flopped back on his bed and started to laugh. Loud, but with
real mirth, tears coming to his eyes. "Oh, you guys are just super, just the
biggest suckers on the planet earth."

"Now he's going to tell us it was all a joke," Valentine said.

"Not a joke, a game. I can make you guys believe anything. I can make you
dance around like puppets." In a phony monster yoice he said, "I'm going to kill
you and chop you into little pieces and put you into the garbage hole." He
laughed again. "Biggest suckers in the solar system."