Orson Scott Card (Narrator)

"Children are not the future - they are the present."

"He was a monster, and he knew it."

"Ender learned to think like his enemies so completely he became them."

"Isolation breeds a certain clarity of thought."

"They made him into a weapon, and then they blamed him for destroying things."

"He had been given the tools of godhood and the mind of a child."

"In the end, it was not the battles he won that defined him, but the ones he lost."

"They wanted a killer. They got a conscience instead."

"He was too young to understand what they were doing to him."

"They saw his potential and destroyed his innocence."

"He was alone, but he was never lonely."

"The price of excellence is isolation."

"They made him believe he was losing when he was winning."

"He learned that compassion and strength are not opposites."

"They called him brilliant, but he was just afraid."

"In the end, he was both the hero and the villain."

"The most important human ability is to tell the difference between what belongs to us and what does not."

"Games are the only form of play that adults are allowed to engage in without feeling self-conscious and foolish."

"The winner of a game of strategy is the player who can best understand his opponent's needs and desires."

"He is ten years old and a military genius."

"The buggers don't understand us, and we don't understand them."

"The humans wouldn't fight unless they had a reason to fear us."

"He was a boy who had never known a moment of peace."

"Fantasy is the imagination's way of coping with reality."

"He was already a legend."

"He understood them better than they understood themselves."

"Humanity's survival depended on a child."

"He was a weapon, and weapons have no choice."

"The game is more real than reality."

"He was the hope and the doom of humanity."