“Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care. ”

“n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.”

“Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?”

“If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false friends or those with similar aspirations. The few who seek your company, the souls who would plainly step off the world for you. Once you resolve to ignore them, only regret will follow.”

“There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.”

“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; 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 are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”