I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Orson Scott CardAnd 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 CardIn 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 CardI didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.
Orson Scott CardThe tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from warriors of two different tribes, fallen in battle. We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe." Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman [member of another sentient species]. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.
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