Ender Quotes

“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, Speaker for the Dead

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“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, Ender’s Game

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD

He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.”
― Orson Scott Card

“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould 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, Ender’s Game

“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.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."

Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“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, Ender's Shadow

“This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego."
"You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." - Hyrum Graff”
― Orson Scott Card

“bende ve hatta başka kimsede olmayan bir şeye sahip olduğunu sezdiğim kadına hemen aşık olurum.”
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