Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

“That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.”

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

“So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'

'About right,' Bean replied.”

“There's always hope… even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.”

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”

“We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”

“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”

“He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.”

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

“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”