You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.

Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.