I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
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.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
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.
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
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.
Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
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.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!
I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.
I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.
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