Ender's Game

"I am really very tired."

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

"Winning is not about destroying your enemy. It's about understanding them."

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

"You're not the only one who's ever been afraid."

"I will go on. That's what I have to do."

"The way to win is to find the enemy, see what they're trying to do, and find the flaw in their plans."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."

"I think you're still hung up on the old idea that kids should be seen and not heard."

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

"They've sent me out to fight a war, so now I have to fight it."

"My teachers wanted to reach me but they didn't know how to reach the part of me that was eager to learn."

"I am much more satisfied with them now than I was before, when I thought they were going to be different people."

"He is ten years old. He hasn't even begun to grow into his intelligence yet."

"We are not actually enemies at all. We are allies against the common enemy."

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

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

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."

"I think it is impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

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

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

"The only way to win is to understand the game completely."

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

"A child can destroy worlds if given the right tools."

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

"In war, there is no such thing as a fair fight."

"The price of excellence is isolation."

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

"To know your enemy is to become your enemy."

"They saw his potential and destroyed his innocence."