Eli > Eli's Quotes

“I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.”
― Perry Moore

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD

He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I 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 Card, Ender’s Game

“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Come on,” he said to Valentine one day. “Let’s fly away and live forever.”
“We can’t,” she said. “There are miracles even relativity can’t pull off, Ender.”
“We have to go. I’m almost happy here.”
“So, stay.”
“I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.”
So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentine, historian errant, writing down the stories of the living while Ender spoke the stories of the dead. And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you."
The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young.
...
The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Let's fly away and live forever”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn’t think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn’t find such a place in himself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game