Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

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

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

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

“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.”

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”