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Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3) QUOTES

Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3) QUOTES

1 " When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

2 " With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

3 " The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

4 " It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

5 " someone's sent
a loving note
in lines of returning geese
and as the moon fills
my western chamber
as petals dance
over the flowing stream
again I think of you
the two of us
living a sadness
apart
a hurt that can't be removed
yet when my gaze comes down
my heart stays up "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

6 " I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

7 " I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

8 " When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

9 " The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

10 " Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.

Human: You don’t believe in God?

Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.

Human: You evolved. We were created.

Hive Queen: By a virus.

Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.

Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.

Human: I understand belief.

Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.

Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.

Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

11 " The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

12 " Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

13 " Madness, and then illumination. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

14 " Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

15 " Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

16 " If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.

And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

17 " If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

18 " Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

19 " He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)

20 " Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition. "

― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)