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nobody ever wrote to me sayingyou know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!.....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

Orson Scott Card
Book, Games, Needs
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.5, Hachette UK

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

Orson Scott Card
Yesterday, Messages, Said

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.

Orson Scott Card
Concerned, Officers, Personnel
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.76, Macmillan

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

Orson Scott Card
Hurt, Pain, Ruins
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.101, Macmillan

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Orson Scott Card
People, Giving, Events
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Selfish, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.185, Macmillan

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.

Orson Scott Card
Stupid, Feelings, Nausea
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Orson Scott Card
Interesting, Ender, My Own

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.

Orson Scott Card
Mom, Thinking, Dust

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Orson Scott Card
Agony, Bears, Misery
Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.187, Macmillan

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Believe, Stories
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.82, Macmillan

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Orson Scott Card
Mirrors, World, Fictional Worlds
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1310, Macmillan

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Crazy, Book
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.134, Macmillan

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

Orson Scott Card
Ender, Said, Devoted
"Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga". Book by Orson Scott Card, September, 2005.

Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

Orson Scott Card
Sorry, Memories, Thinking

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

Orson Scott Card
Hot, Use, Growing
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.84, Macmillan

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Orson Scott Card
Order, Said, Speakers
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.95, Macmillan

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

Orson Scott Card
Glowing, Doors, World
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.61, Macmillan

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Orson Scott Card
Book, Reading, Hostile

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

Orson Scott Card
Mean, Maturity, Differences
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.254, Macmillan

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

Orson Scott Card
Beautiful, Sacrifice, Giving
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Wyrms”, p.68, Macmillan

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Orson Scott Card
Ignorance, Mind, Information
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.65, Hachette UK

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Orson Scott Card
Love You, Race, People
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.192, Macmillan

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.

Orson Scott Card
Growing Up, Believe, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.274, Macmillan

Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

Orson Scott Card
Mother, Father, Valentine
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

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