Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 8)

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

“Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.”

“Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.'
Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.”

“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”

“Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.”

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”

“Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.”

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”

“Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.”

“I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away”

“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

“Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.”

“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”

“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

“Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.”

“If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.”

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”