Ender's Game

"Isolation is the breeding ground of exceptional ability."

"The buggers had their own purposes."

"I will defend my people."

"Nothing comes without cost."

"They have always used young people to fight wars."

"I am homesick."

"In my life I have been all things unclean."

"The weapon was not a starship or a beam weapon."

"There is no greater weapon than a human child."

"I will not forgive myself."

"Children can be destroyed by cruelty."

"I didn't know I was the best."

"The buggers were not mindless. They were sophisticated."

"A leader must not be visible."

"Everything I did was allowed."

"They never asked me what I wanted."

"Love is being willing to die for someone."

"The speaker for the dead speaks the truth as he understands it."

"I do not fear the darkness. I fear those who dwell within it."

"Ender could see the pattern now, and by seeing the pattern Ender could touch it."

"The mind controls so much of the body. We are always trying to make sure that the mind is right."

"You're a leader. Leaders don't get comfortable."

"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've already lost her. I lost her when I became a killer."

"Winning and losing are abstractions. It's the game that matters."

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

"He carried the burden alone."

"The game was never about winning."

"Ender understood them too well."

"There is no greater loyalty than this."