Ender's Game

"He was willing to spend his life for this game."

"Understanding the enemy is everything."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

"Fear can make you cruel."

"Whatever he does, he'll do it better than anyone else."

"The boy is a product of genetic engineering."

"I can't help it. I'm not a good person."

"You aren't the first person to ever have to grow up. You won't be the last."

"He's a good little soldier."

"None of the tests were real. Only the game mattered."

"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you're always subject to those who can."

"I am small and weak. It doesn't matter. I don't have to accept my limitations."

"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."

"There's no teacher but the enemy."

"I've got to be the one who gives the orders. I've got to be the boss."

"Most people are unkind when given the chance to be kind."

"The way we win at anything in life, it's not by destroying this thing that we're fighting against. It's by understanding."

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

"The only way forward is to face what you've done."

"Hope is the cruelest gift we give children."

"I have become the thing I most despised."

"The world was never meant for a child like me."

"Redemption requires acknowledging the past."

"I am prisoner to my own genius."

"The ultimate warfare is against one's own conscience."

"They needed a child because children can be shaped."

"Understanding breeds empathy, and empathy breeds conscience."

"I carry the weight of billions."

"The young are always expendable to those in power."

"I have lost everything that made me human."