“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
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Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, because of relativistic space travel at near light speed, Ender himself is only about 35 years old.
“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.
Ender stopped. "Not from them.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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