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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ec67968	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, at least a little, from their sins.	ender ender-wiggin life-lessons	Orson Scott Card
4b79875	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.	ender ender-wiggin strategy	Orson Scott Card
b773023	I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.	ender inspiration life-lessons	Orson Scott Card
2c4fabb	[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 broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.	ender friendship game loss separation walls	Orson Scott Card
2e92fbe	Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.	ender poke	Orson Scott Card
51fef0e	The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.	ender learning mentor strategy war	Orson Scott Card
d3f8e64	Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.	ender petra	Orson Scott Card
d3e03ff	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.	child childhood ender love	Orson Scott Card
4056e67	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.	ender jealousy sympathy yearning	Orson Scott Card
0dc9eca	"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 you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit."	ender lackwit orson puppets shadow	Orson Scott Card
ad3bda3	While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.	ender humans kids life love reality truth	Orson Scott Card
5652bcf	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. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.	anguish bean burden ender hiding isolation	Orson Scott Card
b852d0a	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.	ender enemy genius live war	Orson Scott Card
9e4123c	Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him	ender genius life	Orson Scott Card
5766731	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.	comprehension crazy ender forgivness genius life love regret truth	Orson Scott Card
a1b53ae	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.	ender genius life purpuse sleep truth	Orson Scott Card
084ff2e	"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."	crazyness ender genius life truth	Orson Scott Card
37d0f70	Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.	ender jane	Orson Scott Card
a781adf	For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.	ender feelings genius life personality	Orson Scott Card
8949a84	"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 means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake."	children ender forget meaning memory valentine your-face	Orson Scott Card
8d6fb03	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 the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus	ender god saints sinners	Orson Scott Card
a4a4f0a	"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 and read , I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well." "You did well, Human."	ender honor	Orson Scott Card
0ff366f	"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."	crazy dreams ender genius person	Orson Scott Card
b22690a	You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.	crazy ender genius life love push	Orson Scott Card
fa0083e	"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, either yes or no."	achilles-de-flandres bean card ender orson orson-scott-card peter shadow wiggin	Orson Scott Card

ec67968

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, at least a little, from their sins.

ender ender-wiggin life-lessons

Orson Scott Card

4b79875

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.

ender ender-wiggin strategy

Orson Scott Card

b773023

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

ender inspiration life-lessons

Orson Scott Card

2c4fabb

[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 broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

ender friendship game loss separation walls

Orson Scott Card

2e92fbe

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

ender poke

Orson Scott Card

51fef0e

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

ender learning mentor strategy war

Orson Scott Card

d3f8e64

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

ender petra

Orson Scott Card

d3e03ff

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.

child childhood ender love

Orson Scott Card

4056e67

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.

ender jealousy sympathy yearning

Orson Scott Card

0dc9eca

"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 you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit."

ender lackwit orson puppets shadow

Orson Scott Card

ad3bda3

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

ender humans kids life love reality truth

Orson Scott Card

5652bcf

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. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

anguish bean burden ender hiding isolation

Orson Scott Card

b852d0a

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.

ender enemy genius live war

Orson Scott Card

9e4123c

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

ender genius life

Orson Scott Card

5766731

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.

comprehension crazy ender forgivness genius life love regret truth

Orson Scott Card

a1b53ae

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.

ender genius life purpuse sleep truth

Orson Scott Card

084ff2e

"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."

crazyness ender genius life truth

Orson Scott Card

37d0f70

Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.

ender jane

Orson Scott Card

a781adf

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

ender feelings genius life personality

Orson Scott Card

8949a84

"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 means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake."

children ender forget meaning memory valentine your-face

Orson Scott Card

8d6fb03

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 the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus

ender god saints sinners

Orson Scott Card

a4a4f0a

"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 and read , I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well." "You did well, Human."

ender honor

Orson Scott Card

0ff366f

"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."

crazy dreams ender genius person

Orson Scott Card

b22690a

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

crazy ender genius life love push

Orson Scott Card

fa0083e

"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, either yes or no."

achilles-de-flandres bean card ender orson orson-scott-card peter shadow wiggin

Orson Scott Card