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“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said.
really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Shadow of the Hegemon

“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

“because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?”

Orson Scott Card