Ender's Game Quotes

“Empire”

“Xenocide”

“Shadow Puppets”

“Ender's Shadow”

“Orson Scott Card”

“Children of the Mind”

“Speaker for the Dead”

“Remember - the enemy's gate is down.”

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”

““The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.””

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

“Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean. Nothing is his fault.”

“Hidden Empire
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“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.”

“As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do that is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius.”

“"Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."”

“"I'll lie to him."
"And if that doesn't work?"
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that, in emergencies. We can't plan for everything, you know."”

“"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."”

“"All right," Ender gasped. "You win."
The man's knee thrust painfully downward. "Since when," ask the man, his voice soft and rasping, "do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?"”

“He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself. He was afraid, and fear made him serious.”