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Ender’s Game quotes about life
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Don’t make fun of me!” Ender said. “I’m afraid I’m going crazy.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Let’s fly away and live forever
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. I didn’t come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I’ve spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it’s too late, before we’re not children anymore.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Everything we do means something.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
While you’re governing the colony and I’m writing political philosophy, They’ll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other’s room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
We don’t punish the ones who fail. They just-don’t go on
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it…. Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
It didn’t matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn’t, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There’s no youth in that. No childhood.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
who would expect less?” she said. ” You’re a Wiggin.” ” Whatever that means.” He said. ” It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you’ve forgiven me.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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, Ender’s Game
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
You don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
So I don’t even get a chance to learn before I’m being judged.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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