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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

Orson Scott Card

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

Orson Scott Card

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“Madness, and then illumination.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind