“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends. — 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
“You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything,… — 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
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — 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
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
