"People prefer their wars to be clean," Ender said, "But they never are. So we play pretend 'till the enemy is less human than we are, until we can't. And then, inexperienced with the concept as we are, we flail around to create the difference. Because most of us don't really think that the beautiful part of a ceasefire is the end of carnage, we think it's the knowledge that the other is vanquished, and everything is us now."