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Graff Quotes

“Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.”

Mona Lisa Graff

Book:A War of Gifts

Source: A War of Gifts

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”

Killing Ender Ender Wiggin Graff

Book:Ender’s Game

Source: Ender’s Game

“You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.”

Manipulation Ender Wiggin Graff

Book:Ender’s Game

Source: 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.”

Book:Ender’s Game

Source: 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.”

Loneliness Soldier Isolation Resentment Anguish Ender Wiggin Graff

Book:Ender’s Game

Source: Ender’s Game

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

Book:Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

“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.”

America Humanity Immigration Graff

Book:Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile