Quotes from book

Ender's Game

“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. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

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

“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”

“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”

“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.”

“It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?”

“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.”

“The enemy gate is down.”

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

“I also remembered 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.”

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

“If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.”