I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: humour sci-fi ender cannibalism
Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: love
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: friendship home enemies
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: strategy ender-wiggin ender bean
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: inspirational prophet red
My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.
But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.
Stichwörter: idiots
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: humor
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'
Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: endings
Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.
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