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“A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.” (Speaker for the Dead Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“And that’s as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it’s true. When we’re that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“As long as you keep getting born, it’s all right to die sometimes”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. My parents died so others could live; now I live, so others must die.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“I don’t hate you, I love you, you’re part of myself, you’re my heart and when you go it’s my heart torn out and carried away”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn’t want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“I think we’ve taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say to myself, I’ve done worse than this.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“It’s the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn’t have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Maybe she couldn’t know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.” (Speaker for the Dead Quotes)
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Nobody wants xenocide, but if it happens, I want to make sure it’s the other guys that disappear. When it comes to war, human is human and alien is alien. All that ramen business goes up in smoke when we’re talking about survival.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Once you understand what people really want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I’ll wish you would go away. What I’m telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don’t have to go away.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling themselves against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind,” Jane intoned. “Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
