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

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“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.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.”

Orson Scott Card book Rebekah

Source: Rebekah

“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”

Orson Scott Card

“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Shadow of the Hegemon

“Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“I looked for perfection, and I found something better.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest
Source: First Meetings in Ender's Universe

“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.

And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

“I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“… the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow