Ender Wiggin Quotes

I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.

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.

We have to go. I’m almost happy here.

Ender Wiggin isn’t a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.

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.

So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other.

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.

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.

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.

And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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

Your face is the same, but I don’t remember what beautiful means anymore.

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

“For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

“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.”

“Once you understand what people really want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.”

“Speaker, I know you’re thinking that we’re afraid of the piggies. And perhaps some of us are. But the feeling most of us have, most of the time, isn’t fear at all. It’s hatred. Loathing.”