Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.