10 Quotes about Love from Ender’s Game (by Orson Scott Card)

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Ender’s Game quotes about love

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.

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


You made them hate me.” Said Ender”So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they’ll love you again? There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be.” -Graff

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


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, Ender’s Game


We don’t punish the ones who fail. They just-don’t go on

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


I came because I’ve spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it’s too late, before we’re not children anymore.

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you’ve forgiven me.

— Orson Scott Card, 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…

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


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, Ender’s Game


As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, ” I don’t care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won’t get you out of this school.

— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game