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Love Quotes by Orson Scott Card

68 Love quotes by Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card explores love that blurs the line between friendship and rivalry, showing how understanding an opponent can become affection. He speaks of inner change, the tension between a static self and growth, and the idea that we should not punish failure but keep moving. The quotes mix conflict, transformation, and empathy.

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You will learn to defeat the enemy.

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“We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,”

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I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

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In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

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Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

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I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

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Darkness bound them closer than light.

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“All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.”

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Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

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For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

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“As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out…

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“Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.”

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You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I…

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“The stone loves you. Don't you see it? Hasn't it shown you its love all your life?”

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“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…

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When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so…

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So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to…

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She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I…

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Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good…

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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for…

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a…

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someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over…

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Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.…

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So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared…

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I…

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“Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen…

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“So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind.…

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“You don't know how to love people. You only know how to own them. And because people will never act just like…

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“You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little…

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“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power…

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“Will the kind of love I have for you be enough, Wang-mu? To reach out to you when I’m in need, and…

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Love is random; fear is inevitable.

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History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

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“The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)”

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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…

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“I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.”

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I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

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“After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.”

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Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

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Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

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Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

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“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…

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“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

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“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe…

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