“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — 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
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — 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
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
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
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” — 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
“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
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
