We have to go. I'm almost happy here.Orson Scott Card
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.Orson Scott Card
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me–to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.Orson Scott Card
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.Orson Scott Card
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.Orson Scott Card
That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." - Hyrum GraffOrson Scott Card
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,Orson Scott Card
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...Orson Scott Card
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.Orson Scott Card
Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.Orson Scott Card
So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.Orson Scott Card
I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.Orson Scott Card
It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.Orson Scott Card
He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on. It was a good decision, and Jane was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out. Those few seconds in which parts of her mind came to a halt were not trivial in their effect on her. There was trauma, loss, change; she was not now the same being that she had been before. parts of her had died. Parts of her had become confused, out of order.. She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out. .Orson Scott Card