With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. Orson Scott Card hate fighting teacher In war, everyone has their chance to bleed. Orson Scott Card chance war One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers? Orson Scott Card wife prayer thinking His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. Orson Scott Card vices time culture Let's fly away and live forever Orson Scott Card fly-away live-forever forever Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down. Orson Scott Card girl kind stupid This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right? Orson Scott Card emotion feelings relationship No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman. Orson Scott Card couple men sex Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship. Orson Scott Card thanks said liars Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society. Orson Scott Card citizens law book He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far. Orson Scott Card larger-than-life too-much soldier I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war. Orson Scott Card light fear war [It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency. Orson Scott Card strong reading happy-life 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. Orson Scott Card kind want boys Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone. Orson Scott Card couple running moving a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. Orson Scott Card acting long past And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day. Orson Scott Card clock broken two Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen. Orson Scott Card running morning life Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind. Orson Scott Card leadership wise men Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask? Orson Scott Card wells answers knows
