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“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 think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game

“Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.”
― When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
― When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
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