Ender Wiggin: 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.
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The *way* we win matters.
Colonel Graff: Tell me why you kept on kicking him. You had already won.
Ender Wiggin: Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.
Colonel Graff: You have a habit of upsetting your commander.
Ender Wiggin: I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me, sir.
Mazer Rackham: There is no teacher but the enemy. Only he will tell you where you are weak, where he is strong.
[last lines]
Ender Wiggin: I need to find out if I'm as gifted at peace as I am at war. They've awarded me the rank of Admiral and left me to my own devices, which suits me fine. I'll travel the universe and carry with me a precious cargo. Because I have a promise to keep.
Bean: [to Bernard] Your mother cheated, that's why you look like a plumber.
Bean: The enemy's gate is down.
Petra Arkanian: At least you don't have any bad habits.
Ender Wiggin: I don't have any good ones either.
Petra Arkanian: I'll give you those.
Colonel Graff: There's only one kid on this launch with any brains at all so far, and that's Ender Wiggin.
Colonel Graff: Don't threaten me boy, I'm not the enemy.
Ender Wiggin: I'm not so sure. I don't want to play this game any more. I quit.
Ender Wiggin: If anybody has an idea they think is better than mine, I wanna hear it. I can't be expected to do all the thinking in this army, can I, Bean?
Colonel Graff: Let's see how he handles rejection.
Major Gwen Anderson: After you had already won, why did you continue to hit him? Did you enjoy it?
Ender Wiggin: Knocking him down was the first fight, I wanted to win all the others, so they'd leave me alone.
Mazer Rackham: You will have to win this war one battle at a time.
[Col. Graff is taking Valentine to see Ender]
Valentine Wiggin: Come on. You just want him to re-enlist.
Colonel Graff: I want him to save lives.
Valentine Wiggin: And what about his life?
Behari, teacher: Now, the problem was simple: How do you slingshot your forces into an attack position on the blind side of this planet using the the gravitational pull from this planet? This is basic rocket science!
