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He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.


Orson Scott Card

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JANSEN HAMILTON nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world o...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I’m not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven’t found one yet, that I didn’t say...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The computer is also not famous for having mercy.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I thought commanders could order anything.”
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.
ORSON SCOTT CARD That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shor...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officer...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
ORSON SCOTT CARD At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds:

THE END OF THE WORLD ORSON SCOTT CARD No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo...
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