“ I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school. Orson Scott Card
“ He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew.… Orson Scott Card
“ No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, a… Orson Scott Card
“ In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?No one had an answer for him, ei… Orson Scott Card
“ 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'… Orson Scott Card
“ I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid. Orson Scott Card
“ Mom, said Peter, nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about.Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure y… Orson Scott Card
“ That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me."… Orson Scott Card
“ As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of… Orson Scott Card
“ When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker—ever since I first learned Stark an… Orson Scott Card
“ [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be bro… Orson Scott Card
“ I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore. Orson Scott Card
“ 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.… Orson Scott Card
“ You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly.You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful.Memory does play tricks on us.No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful… Orson Scott Card
“ I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there. Orson Scott Card
