Top 100 Quotes About Ender
#1. It's a game changer, not a game ender.
Joe Teti
#2. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.
Orson Scott Card
#3. Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.
Ruth Moore
#4. I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender
Orson Scott Card
#5. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#6. Could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him; a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed
Orson Scott Card
#7. Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.
Orson Scott Card
#8. I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Orson Scott Card
#9. It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)
Orson Scott Card
#10. I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
Orson Scott Card
#11. 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.
Junot Diaz
#12. Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.
Orson Scott Card
#13. 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
#14. Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin
Orson Scott Card
#15. Are you afraid the Ender Dragon is coming after you?" Lucy joked. "I'm looking at the moon," Steve said quite seriously. "I think I want to explore the moon. Are you guys in?" "Funny,
Winter Morgan
#16. Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#17. The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said.
Orson Scott Card
#18. Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own."
~Val
Orson Scott Card
#19. Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
Orson Scott Card
#20. I thought commanders could order anything."
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.
Orson Scott Card
#22. The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.
Anthony Bourdain
#23. This is why I should have had a son of my own, thought Ender. To lean on me when he was small, and then for me to lean on when I'm old.
Orson Scott Card
#24. 'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.
Orson Scott Card
#26. I speak to everyone in the language they understand," said Ender. "That isn't being slick. It's being clear
Orson Scott Card
#27. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#28. We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.
Orson Scott Card
#29. In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.
Orson Scott Card
#30. One minute Ender is the beginning and end of the world, the best chance for a great man that I'll ever have a chance to find. The next minute, he's a gay little boy who shamed me. You judge hi according to whether or not he's useful to you.
Orson Scott Card
#31. Why is it called Dr. Device?" "When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device. M.D. Device." Ender still didn't understand. "M.D. The initials stand for Medical Doctor, too. M.D. Device, therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke." Ender didn't see what was funny about it.
Orson Scott Card
#32. But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.
Orson Scott Card
#33. Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
Gavin Hood
#34. 'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.
Nonso Anozie
#35. If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
Marisol Nichols
#36. I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.
Orson Scott Card
#37. Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man.
Orson Scott Card
#38. The seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
Orson Scott Card
#39. 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
#40. Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
Orson Scott Card
#41. Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.
Orson Scott Card
#42. 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
#43. It was the circle of perfect motion. Of the light-bringer and dark-giver, the world-starter and shadow-ender. Of initiation and completion. It was the symbol of the Cahr Awen. Cahr Awen.
Susan Dennard
#45. 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!
Orson Scott Card
#47. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#48. For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Orson Scott Card
#49. A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.
Orson Scott Card
#50. This is so ... " I can't find the word.
"Wonderful? Amazing?" the Ender nurse offers.
"Bizarre," I say as I watch the lips of the Starter move in the mirror.
Lissa Price
#51. Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
Orson Scott Card
#52. Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I
Orson Scott Card
#53. 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
Gavin Hood
#54. I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!
Orson Scott Card
#55. Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val'
'I can't think why I shouldn't.
Orson Scott Card
#56. One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. You dumb as a thumb.
Orson Scott Card
#57. No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but
ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.
Orson Scott Card
#58. I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
Orson Scott Card
#59. We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.
Ender stopped. "Not from them.
Orson Scott Card
#60. Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race - it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.
Orson Scott Card
#61. I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#62. It was highly possible that I saved that cookie from possible extinction. Ok, who was I kidding? When it came to cookie extinction, I was a world-ender.
Bradford Bates
#63. I've thought about how you'd taste," he said, in a low, guttural voice, and she whimpered, arched against his mouth.
"Jesus," he panted. "It's like a fucking drug."
~Tommy aka "Ender
Sydney Croft
#64. All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
Orson Scott Card
#65. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#66. This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.
Orson Scott Card
#67. Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.
Orson Scott Card
#68. Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
Orson Scott Card
#69. For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
Gavin Hood
#70. Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.
Orson Scott Card
#71. I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
Orson Scott Card
#72. He thought of half a dozen ideas before he went to sleep. Ender would be pleased-every one of them was stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#73. I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
Marie Lu
#74. 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
#75. That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
Orson Scott Card
#76. Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? 'Of course,' Ender said contemptuously. 'I'm not as close to the floor as you are.
Orson Scott Card
#78. Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
Orson Scott Card
#79. I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.
Orson Scott Card
#81. 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
Orson Scott Card
#82. Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.
Orson Scott Card
#84. Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
Orson Scott Card
#85. I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
Orson Scott Card
#86. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
Orson Scott Card
#88. But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
Orson Scott Card
#90. He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
Orson Scott Card
#91. Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
Orson Scott Card
#92. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#93. I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.
Orson Scott Card
#94. We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.
Orson Scott Card
#95. Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
Orson Scott Card
#96. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#97. 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
#98. You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly.
"You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.
Orson Scott Card
#100. 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.
Orson Scott Card
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