CosmicBob

“Sometimes I think you enjoy breaking these little geniuses.” “There is an art to it, and I’m very, very good at it. But enjoy? Well, maybe. When they put back the pieces afterward, and it makes them better.” “You’re a monster.” “Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?” “Just a medal. The budget isn’t inexhaustible.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It’s killers they need for the bugger wars. It’s people who can grind the enemy’s face into the dust and spatter their blood all over space. Well, I’m your man. I’m the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I’m your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice