Quotes from Orson Scott Card

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.

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.

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

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

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

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?

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and become one of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there. As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Life is a suicide mission.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition. You mean it isn't ugly?

If the act is evil, the actor is evil.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.