And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
Orson Scott CardOne mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott CardTags: bean two-heads-are-better-than-one
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 CardTags: strategy ender-wiggin ender bean
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."
Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Orson Scott CardHe would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
Orson Scott CardDeath 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
I 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.
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What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.
Orson Scott CardTags: bean
You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.
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