More from Orson Scott Card

  1. I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.
  2. I will remember this, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not a disgrace. And I hope I do…
  3. For now that they could not be together, they must indefinitely be apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubst…
  4. He was commander every moment they were together. He never had to remind them of it; he simply was.
  5. I'm hurting you to make you a better solider in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never su…
  6. Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.
  7. Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.
  8. There were many, too, who hated him. Hated him for being young, for being excellent, for having made their victories look paltry and weak.

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