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You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

Orson Scott Card
World, Littles, Helping
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.410, Macmillan

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Orson Scott Card
Children, Thinking, People
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.111, Macmillan

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Orson Scott Card
Eye, College, Training

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Orson Scott Card
Rivers, Body, Dumped Her

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

Orson Scott Card
Liars, Thanks, Said
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.224, Macmillan

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

Orson Scott Card
Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation
Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Orson Scott Card
Real, Eye, Hunger
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.23, Macmillan

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

Orson Scott Card
Girl, Stupid, Kind

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Lakes, Order
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Orson Scott Card
Valentine, Today, Firsts
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.15, Macmillan

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Orson Scott Card
Kissing, Doors, Bye
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.123, Macmillan

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Orson Scott Card
Grateful, Civilization, Poison

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

Orson Scott Card
Hate, People, Feelings
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

Orson Scott Card
Telling The Truth, Selling
Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.281, Macmillan

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Orson Scott Card
Giving, Fantasy, Mental Illness
Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.119, Macmillan

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, Adults, Matter
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.157, Macmillan

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Orson Scott Card
Rumor, Dry, Sauce

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Orson Scott Card
Sports, Lines, Dutch
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.165, Macmillan

At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

Orson Scott Card
Pain, Army, Hands
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Heart, Cutting
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Earthfall”, p.10, Macmillan

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

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Jobs, Congratulations, Army
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.205, Tor Science Fiction

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

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Home, People, Worry
"Treasure Box". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

You will learn to defeat the enemy.

Orson Scott Card
Enemy, Defeat
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.166, Macmillan

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

Orson Scott Card
Soul, Good Souls, Ifs
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1728, Macmillan

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Orson Scott Card
Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.22, Writer's Digest Books

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