Bigbird

“Because here's the thing―we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians. And you were too cocky, too stupid, too insane to realize it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow