Ender Wiggin Quotes

• 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.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Defeat, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Who I Am, Long

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Adults, Matter

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.157, Macmillan

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• I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Stupid, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.154, Macmillan

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• There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Forever, Doubt

  "Ender's Game". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

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• An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Strong, Men

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• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Home, Boys

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.136, Macmillan

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• I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• 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, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Believe, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Desire, Humans

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Tor Books

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• because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enders Game, Subjects, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.137, Macmillan

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• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

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• 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

  Soldier, Too Much, Larger Than Life

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.349, Macmillan

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