Orson Scott Card quotes - page 6

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet. (Orson Scott Card)

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Orson Scott Card

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

Orson Scott Card

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

Orson Scott Card

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

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I also remembered 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.

Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Orson Scott Card

He didn't know if he had the right or not. Didn't know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.

Orson Scott Card

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Orson Scott Card

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Orson Scott Card

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty. (Orson Scott Card)

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender.

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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

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I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

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I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

Orson Scott Card

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

Orson Scott Card

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.

Orson Scott Card

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

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The enemy gate is down.

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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. (Orson Scott Card)

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

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Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child... Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Orson Scott Card

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Orson Scott Card

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

Orson Scott Card

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