The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a couple of expensive looking vases.... "You didn't do anything stupid like writing IOUs and signing your name, did you?" "That's an excellent idea," said Danny. He stepped back through the gate, waited for a count of five, and then returned to Eric. Now Eric was standing, and when he saw Danny he visibly sagged with relief. "What kind of moron are you?" "The fun-loving kind," said Danny. "I'm not an idiot, of course I didn't sign my name to IOUs." "Good." "I signed yours.
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ORSON SCOTT CARD A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that mornin... ORSON SCOTT CARD So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it... ORSON SCOTT CARD Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Ch... ORSON SCOTT CARD I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food... ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ... ORSON SCOTT CARD I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr... ORSON SCOTT CARD Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena... ORSON SCOTT CARD There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve... ORSON SCOTT CARD As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ORSON SCOTT CARD ...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a... ORSON SCOTT CARD Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t... ORSON SCOTT CARD I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina... ORSON SCOTT CARD And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? ORSON SCOTT CARD Stories are invented as you go along... ORSON SCOTT CARD But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no... ORSON SCOTT CARD This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, ... ORSON SCOTT CARD I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a cha... ORSON SCOTT CARD The piggies were not to be disturbed- ORSON SCOTT CARD Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. ORSON SCOTT CARD But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if ... ORSON SCOTT CARD I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war 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... ORSON SCOTT CARD