All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.
Orson Scott CardI didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
Orson Scott CardBean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
Orson Scott CardTags: love family human-nature belonging hunger bean
Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid.
Orson Scott CardTags: ignorance stupid share achilles-de-flandres poke
Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.
Orson Scott CardTags: power achilles-de-flandres following
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
Orson Scott CardHe had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
Orson Scott CardTags: isolation frustration respect
Because here's the thing―we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians. And you were too cocky, too stupid, too insane to realize it.
Orson Scott CardI don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.
Orson Scott CardTags: bean culpability
Because human nature never changes.
Orson Scott CardTags: change human-nature failure
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