Ender Wiggin

Character in Ender's Game From: Ender's Game

Child prodigy and military commander; protagonist

266 quotes

"I am no longer the boy they trained."
Change
"I cannot remain ignorant of the truth."
Truth
"I did it all for them. For Earth."
Motivation
"I am a weapon, nothing more."
War
"They made me what I am."
Power
"I have lost everything that made me human."
"I carry the weight of billions."
"I am prisoner to my own genius."
Power
"The world was never meant for a child like me."
"I have become the thing I most despised."
Change
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
Love
"The way we win at anything in life, it's not by destroying this thing that we're fighting against. It's by understanding."
Wisdom
"I've got to be the one who gives the orders. I've got to be the boss."
Leadership
"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."
Wisdom
"I am small and weak. It doesn't matter. I don't have to accept my limitations."
Strength
"I can't help it. I'm not a good person."
"I am a murderer."
Truth
"I didn't want to be a killer, but they made me one."
"I understand now. I understand what you made me do."
Knowledge
"I became the thing they feared most."
Power
"The enemy was never outside. It was within."
Philosophy
"The game was never a game at all."
"What is the difference between a killer and a commander?"
Philosophy
"If I could just do the one thing I'm best at, maybe I could be useful."
"I'll be sane someday, but not today."
"They're gone and I'm still here."
"I think like a soldier now."
"I think you're still afraid of me. Afraid I'm smarter than you."
Fear
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, I am capable of loving him."
Wisdom
"The only advantage to being a child is that you're allowed to be irresponsible."
Education