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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8176857 | Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b33a883 | The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. | pain memories joy reality inspirational past-and-present memory pleasure | Orson Scott Card | |
| 77067f2 | I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and pretended to be what I was before. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b7e2375 | Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros." ~Sel Menach" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5f648ad | He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 46af861 | saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ef826a5 | Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| be088f6 | I have begged and she hasn't answered. The whales are swimming deep inside me and she doesn't help. I need help. All the monsters in the world are inside me instead of outside me. I've been tricked and trapped and they are inside my walls not outside my walls inside with me and she won't help me. When I stop thinking about a muscle it shakes. When I stop thinking about a fear it leaps at me. I'm drowning but the lake keeps getting deeper an.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d9a1226 | Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 229d680 | He was known by three names. The official records have the first one: Marcos Maria Ribeira. And his official data. Born 1929. Died 1970. Worked in the steel foundry. Perfect safety record. Never arrested. A wife, six children. A model citizen, because he never did anything bad enough to go on the public record. The second name he had was Marcao. Big Marcos. Because he was a giant of a man. Reached his adult size early in his life. How old.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5ffaea3 | You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5074daf | Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind. | learning wisdom frederick transferring-personality-traits parenthood | Orson Scott Card | |
| 49849af | Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7e2a774 | Issib wasn't thrilled to see him. I'm busy and don't need interruptions." "This is the household library," said Nafai. "This is where we always come to do research." "See? You're interrupting already." "Look, I didn't say anything, I just came in here, and you started picking at me the second I walked in the door." "I was hoping you'd walk back out." "I can't. Mother sent me here." Nafai walked over behind Issib, who was floating comfo.. | book-clip sci-fi | Orson Scott Card | |
| 57de2d8 | My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0325195 | Don't launch it," said Bean into his microphone, head down. "Set it off inside your ship. God be with you." | suicide-mission kamikaze | Orson Scott Card | |
| 947a97f | Will he always come between us? Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 972cb6b | Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them. Human: You don't believe in God? Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began. Human: You evolved. We were created. Hive Queen: By a virus. Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us. Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer. Human: I understand belief. Hive Queen: No--you desire bel.. | religion illusions | Orson Scott Card | |
| 74ffc6a | What are you reading?" Polonius asked. "Words, words, words," said Hamlet. "And what's the subject?" "Lesser than the king, but still not nothing." It took Polonius a moment to realize he had answered another meaning of 'subject.' "I mean what do you read about?" "All in a line, back and forth." said Hamlet. "I go from left to right with my mind full, and then must drop it there and head back empty-headed to the left side again, and take up.. | obtuse polonius | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3722a15 | I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this. | the-speaker ender-wiggin | Orson Scott Card | |
| fa640b3 | We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore. | ender-wiggin valentine | Orson Scott Card | |
| 0ff366f | In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me." | dreams ender genius person crazy | Orson Scott Card | |
| d3e61c6 | The loneliness of power. | 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. | life love push ender genius crazy | Orson Scott Card | |
| d035621 | He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet... | petra | Orson Scott Card | |
| c8b1675 | To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 013a7a5 | No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0f59113 | 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. | ecology humans | Orson Scott Card | |
| 52d8296 | Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly. If anybody's going to be scared, let it be the buggers." "Makes you almost feel sorry for them, knowing Ender's going to be coming after them." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dc72e93 | Maybe that's who you are, what you remember." - Valentine" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2487b52 | 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 the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward 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. And the voice of one girl, who spoke to him out of his far-off childho.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 980d2e7 | To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail. | hammer sci-fi | Orson Scott Card | |
| 9fc96b7 | It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. | wisdom wise | Orson Scott Card | |
| f7e5e2f | the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 810bd3c | You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bf81907 | Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 06aea1c | Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." Chapter 3, pg 1 - Ender's Game" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c19e52b | Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 94b7a8c | Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bc6301b | There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d21fd1c | Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter. | science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8788842 | Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c4f125c | If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0d317fe | It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own. | Orson Scott Card |