“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
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There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever - and they're taking them young.
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Christopher Yost
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“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
“I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have...”
“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
“You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”
“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, wha...”