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“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.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”

Orson Scott Card Sarah

Source: Sarah