Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
– Orson Scott Card
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- Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along-•the same person that I am today. – Orson Scott Card
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- You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not. – Orson Scott Card
- Remember, I’m the only person her who’s paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I’ll break your face. OK? – Orson Scott Card
- How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday. – Orson Scott Card
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- So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other. – Orson Scott Card
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- Order and disorder’, said the speaker, ‘they each have their beauty. – Orson Scott Card
- You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you’ll accomplish, and nothing more. – Orson Scott Card
- He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. – Orson Scott Card
- Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. – Orson Scott Card
- I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it. – Orson Scott Card
- My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you. – Orson Scott Card
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization… One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. – Orson Scott Card
- Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
- From you I can learn things that nobody knows. – Orson Scott Card
- I’ve learned all I’m ever going to learn from you. – Orson Scott Card
- The only teacher that’s worth anything to you is your enemy. – Orson Scott Card
- Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner’s loss. – Orson Scott Card
- Maybe that’s who you are, what you remember. – Orson Scott Card
- No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. – Orson Scott Card
- Colonel Graff: We won! That’s all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. – Orson Scott Card
- Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings. – Orson Scott Card
- When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them. – Orson Scott Card
- Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. – Orson Scott Card
- Government is all show when it isn’t murder in the dark … or soldiers in the open. – Orson Scott Card
- a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. – Orson Scott Card
- Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? – Orson Scott Card
- I didn’t know how you’d get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good. – Orson Scott Card
- It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure. – Orson Scott Card
- But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin. – Orson Scott Card
- I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know. – Orson Scott Card
- Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? – Orson Scott Card
- Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. – Orson Scott Card
- [T]hat’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. – Orson Scott Card
- We pray for a messenger from God-”who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message? – Orson Scott Card
- A good commander, thought Ender, doesn’t have to make stupid threats. – Orson Scott Card