Ender Quotes

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Never believe a rumor of my death, ' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.

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.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

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.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

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...

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

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.

I stole their future from them

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

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

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.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

He had brought no possessions with him

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.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

In my dreams, " said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.