Ender's Game

"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."

"The tests were designed to measure leadership potential, not academic ability."

"It's what we are. We don't have any choice about it."

"I didn't want any of this. I just wanted to play."

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally pure his own motives, is ashamed of the rotten society in which he must live."

"I can win this. I know I can. But I don't want to."

"We haven't been able to afford to take away so much as one soldier."

"You're the only one who can make a difference."

"All this time, I've been thinking like a military commander. But I should have been thinking like a human being."

"When you know you're beaten, you give up."

"The game is a lie. But the strategy is real."

"I've already won. You can't hurt me anymore. I won't let you."

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."

"He wasn't a killer, he was a small boy who had been forced to play a game."

"You think this game is yours to lose. But you're already lost."

"Wars are not won by killing the enemy. Wars are won by destroying the enemy's ability and will to fight."

"The only advantage to being a child is that you're allowed to be irresponsible."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, I am capable of loving him."

"I think you're still afraid of me. Afraid I'm smarter than you."

"You've been used and abused."

"I think like a soldier now."

"They're gone and I'm still here."

"A military genius must be ruthless."

"He is ten years old and already he hates himself."

"Games are the only place where life makes sense."

"I'll be sane someday, but not today."

"It's not a lie if you believe it."

"The enemy's gate is down."

"If I could just do the one thing I'm best at, maybe I could be useful."

"What is the difference between a killer and a commander?"