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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.

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
Hurt, Love You, Giving
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.9, Macmillan

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card
Giving, Honor, Dignity
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.143, Macmillan

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

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Garden, Pigs, Giving

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
Children, Book, Giving

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

Orson Scott Card
Brother, Giving, Easy
Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.217, 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.

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

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, People, Giving
Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.17, Hachette UK

And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

Orson Scott Card
Book, Writing, Giving
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, 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

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

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Orson Scott Card
Giving, Purpose, Life Is
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.666, Macmillan

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Giving, Needs
"Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.

Orson Scott Card
Light, Cities, Giving

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