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“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game

“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.”

Orson Scott Card

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The enemy gate is down.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Variant: Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
Source: Ender's Game

“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”

Orson Scott Card

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

Orson Scott Card

“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

Orson Scott Card

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow Puppets

Source: Shadow Puppets

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow