“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
![“[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/21b/orson-scott-card-134_alai_that-wall-might-be-breached-sometime-in_432813.png)
