Home > Work > Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4) QUOTES

Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4) QUOTES

1 " Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

2 " [No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

3 " The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

4 " But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

5 " I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

6 " I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.
The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.
The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,
And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

7 " Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

8 " My father once told me
that there are no gods;
only the cruel manipulations
of evil people
who pretended that their power was good
and their exploitation was love.
But if there are no gods;
why are we so hungry to believe in them?
Just because evil liars
stand between us and the gods
and block our view of them
does not mean that the bright halo
that surrounds each liar
is not the outer edges of a god, waiting
for us to find our way around the lie. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

9 " She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

10 " Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

11 " Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

12 " All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

13 " And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

14 " Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

15 " Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

16 " If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

17 " I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

18 " Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother? "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

19 " Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives? "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

20 " Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? "

― Orson Scott Card , Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)