Graff Quotes

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes."
"So God uses wicked people as his tools?"
"God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses."
"So, in the long run, God always wins?"
"Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.”
"Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.”
― Orson Scott Card, A War of Gifts

“I had the foolish idea that we should test for desirable and useful traits so that we could assemble ideally balanced teams to the colonies. [...] It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to America based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is "descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile