Орсон Скотт Кард цитаты

„Он свинья. - Свиньи в целом вполне приличный народ.
- Ты прав, я к ним несправедлив.“

личинка
Источник: романы

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„Земля - это непрекращающийся треск цикад, свист ветра и пение птиц.“

свинья
Источник: Игра Эндера

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„Я есть то, что я помню.“

земля
Источник: Игра Эндера

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Любовь — это богатство, которое ты можешь иметь только в том случае, когда все враги твои истреблены. До этого же, каждый кого ты любишь – заложник, ослабляющий твое бесстрашие и подкупающий трезвость твоего рассудка.“

Источник: Игра Эндера

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

Орсон Скотт Кард: Цитаты на английском языке

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“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 книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.'

'About right,' Bean replied.”

Orson Scott Card книга Xenocide

Источник: Xenocide

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Shadow

Источник: Ender's Shadow

“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”

Orson Scott Card книга Xenocide

Источник: Xenocide

“We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.”

Orson Scott Card книга Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.”

Treason (1988)

“There's always hope… even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.”

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

Orson Scott Card книга Saints

Saints (1983)

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

Orson Scott Card книга Speaker for the Dead

Источник: Speaker for the Dead

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

Orson Scott Card книга The Folk of the Fringe

Источник: The Folk of the Fringe

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

Orson Scott Card книга Speaker for the Dead

Источник: Speaker for the Dead

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”

Orson Scott Card книга Speaker for the Dead

Источник: Speaker for the Dead

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game