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“A broken clock is right two times a day.” (Ender’s Shadow Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Bean 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 Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Bean just didn’t get it. He didn’t feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you’re in, you don’t worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here’s where you’ve got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn’t help much with that.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“He didn’t feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you’re in, you don’t worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here’s where you’ve got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn’t help much with that.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“I 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 Card
Ender’s Shadow
“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
Ender’s Shadow
“I’m not stupid!” In Bean’s experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.’ What is it then?’ It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“It was Ender whose previous victories taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when we are really something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.” (Ender’s Shadow Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Just one more example of why a commander who ruled by fear and made all the decisions himself would always be beaten, sooner or later.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Let me tell you about Ender. He’s all about beating the other guys. Not just winning-he has to beat the other guy into the ground or he isn’t happy.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn’t help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for “feel.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don’t think they have any, so they don’t mind giving it up.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“So plans of attack, what good are they then? We try, we do what we can, but what really counts is what you do when command breaks down.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“Until you know that you’re tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don’t commit to battle.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
“You can’t rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.”
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow
