That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But I have these friends because I stayed with my task. So instead of dragging each other down, we’re building each other… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean? — 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
“Their friendship, remembered from the battle school days, gradually disappeared. It was to each other that they became close; it was with… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh, Pipo, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“No, he told himself honestly. I’ve never had real friends before. This is what it feels like. This is why people will… — 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
“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
“Come with us!” shouted one of the Indonesians. Bean thought this was probably a good idea. Since the assassination attempt had included… — 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: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — 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 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