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“A man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.” (Children of the Mind Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“But then she might not be good at understanding the inflections of one such as this. Certainly it was hard to read the grimaces of such a round-eyed man. Both his face and his voice contained hidden languages that she could not understand.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they’re gone.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“If you lay a hand on me I’ll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it’ll take a heart surgeon to get them out.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“I’ve had your tears with mine, and you’ve had mine with yours. I think that’s more intimate even than a kiss.” (Children of the Mind Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you’re finally out, you croak.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That’s life. It hurts, it’s dirty, and it feels very, very good.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“That was Ender’s gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world. She had been alive, and so she knew now that her electronic dwelling-place gave her only a fraction of a life.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“The little bitch. She didn’t have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one’s life without killing that life to accommodate them.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“To reach out to you when I’m in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone?”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“You’re just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there’s nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
“You’re very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can’t really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I’m all the more in need of good advice, since I can’t actually conceive of needing any.”
Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind
