Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Orson Scott CardTags: death-and-dying life-and-living bean sister-carlotta
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
Orson Scott CardSoldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Orson Scott CardThe essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Orson Scott CardTags: learning training practicing
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
Orson Scott CardTags: war communication
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
Orson Scott CardI would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do this alone.
Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn’t true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn’t bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be — the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
Tags: friendship trust admiration bean
Free will doesn’t exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can’t trace them back. If you’ve got one line of dominoes knocking each other down one by one, then you can always say, Look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the casual chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to.
Orson Scott CardTags: xenocide
What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.
Orson Scott CardTags: bean
So the I.F. is spying on Earth."
"Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."
"Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.
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