Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

by Orson Scott Card

Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.

But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.”

“The most noble title any child can have,” Demosthenes wrote, “is Third.” For you, Ender, she said to herself as she wrote.

There were many, too, who hated him. Hated him for being young, for being excellent,