Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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113 Quotes
"Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?"
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds"
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn’t want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game."
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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