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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Orson Scott Card
Past, Fabric, Hundred
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.858, Macmillan

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

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Liars, Lying, Language
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.516, Macmillan

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

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Sacrifice, Race, Will To Survive
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.190, Macmillan

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Orson Scott Card
World, Faces, Walks

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Orson Scott Card
Having Hope, Left, Ifs
Orson Scott Card (1986). “Ender's war”

Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome.

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Thank You, Loss, Rams
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

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Intelligent, Self, People
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.89, Macmillan

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

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Past, Seeing, I Can
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.193, Macmillan

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

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Hate, Love You, Heart
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.307, Macmillan

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

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Beautiful, Understanding, Dangerous
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.95, Macmillan

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

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Home, Soldier, Want
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.333, Macmillan

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

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Dream, Judging, Loving You
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.266, Macmillan

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

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Pain, Fear, Grief
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1232, Macmillan

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Orson Scott Card
War, Winning, Stupidity
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.117, Macmillan

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

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Naps, Want, Next
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.141, Macmillan

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

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Long, Enough, Plant
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.36, Macmillan

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

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Clever, Enemy, Stronger
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.148, Macmillan

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Titles, Noble
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.104, Macmillan

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

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Children, Stupid, Easy
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1333, Macmillan

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

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Race, Welcome, Enders Game
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.160, Macmillan

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Names, Ideas
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.148, Tor Science Fiction

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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Adversity, Hard Times, Long

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

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Hurt, Lying, Adults
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

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

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Crazy, Thinking, Ender
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.222, Macmillan

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

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War, Enders Game, Ender
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.160, Macmillan

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