Ender's Game

• Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. - Ender Wiggin

• "Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth." - Valentine to Ender

• "Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." - Mazer Rackham to Ender

• "Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?" - Mazer Rackham to Ender

• "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." - Ender to Valentine

• "There is no teacher but the enemy." - Mazer Rackham to Ender