Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quintet Book 2)

by Orson Scott Card

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

“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.”

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.

Maybe she couldn’t know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

“Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.”

“I think we’ve taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness.”

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.”

“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.”

“As long as you keep getting born, it’s all right to die sometimes.”