Ender's Game

Book · 6 characters · 625 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Ender's Game

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"Children can be taught to be anything"
Graff Education
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"I should have known I was not truly talking to Mazer"
Ender Wiggin
E
"The enemy's gate is down"
Ender Wiggin
E
"Winning is not everything it is cracked up to be"
Ender Wiggin Success
O
"We are all fighting a war within ourselves"
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"They made me into a weapon"
Ender Wiggin Power
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"I cannot lead if I do not understand"
Ender Wiggin Leadership
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"To know another person is to love them"
Ender Wiggin Love
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"The game is everything"
Peter Wiggin
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"I am not what you wanted. I am what you got"
Ender Wiggin
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"Compassion can be a weapon in itself"
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Kindness
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"You must understand the enemy to defeat them"
Mazer Rackham Knowledge
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"I don't want to be a leader. I want to go home"
Ender Wiggin Freedom
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"The only way to end this is to win"
Ender Wiggin War
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"You are a killer. But so am I"
Graff Truth
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"In the moment of victory, I am defeated"
Ender Wiggin Truth
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"Fear is the weapon of the enemy"
Orson Scott Card (Narrator) Courage
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"The mind of the warrior must be ready for anything"
Mazer Rackham Leadership
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"I think like a child thinks"
Ender Wiggin Wisdom
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"There is no victory without sacrifice."
Mazer Rackham Perseverance
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"I am no longer the boy they trained me to be."
Ender Wiggin Change
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"The mind of a child is infinite possibility; we merely direct it."
Graff Education
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"I have to live with what I've done."
Ender Wiggin
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"They made me what I needed to be."
Ender Wiggin
E
"I didn't sign up for this war."
Ender Wiggin
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"A boy's game becomes humanity's war."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"We could not afford to let him know the real stakes."
Graff
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"The difference between a hero and a villain is perspective."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"I was just playing the game."
Ender Wiggin
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"The gate is down. The game is over."
Ender Wiggin