Ender In Exile Quotes

“Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.”
Willingness is the single most important test.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“Good-bye, Eros, and all the soldiers on it, the ones who fought for me and the other children, the ones who manipulated us and lied to us for the good of humanity, the ones who conspired to defame me and keep me from returning to Earth, all of you, good and bad, kind and selfish, good-bye to you, I am no longer one of you, neither your pawn nor your savior.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“...the fact that you have belonged to the human race more deeply and fully than most people could even imagine, find a way to believe that, and don't hide from life in the unfathomable, lightless depths of relativistic space.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile