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“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow