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„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

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„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

““Are you all right, sir?” asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.””

Орсон Скотт Кард: Цитаты на английском языке

“I have no secret thoughts… Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them — if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.”

Orson Scott Card книга Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else’s plan?”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 100
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.”

Orson Scott Card книга Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. “At least not without good reason.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15.

“I’m a terrible salesman,” he finally said. “I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 12 “Springfield” (p. 250).

“I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 1 “Nueva Barcelona” (p. 19).

“Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence—what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Petra Arkanian Delphiki.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.”

"Atlantis," from Keeper of Dreams (2008).

“And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.”

Treason (1988)

“Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 9.

“You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don’t understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists.”

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 17.

“As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?…And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.”

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 15.

“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”

Orson Scott Card книга Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 9 “Expeditions” (p. 166).

“Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.”

Orson Scott Card книга Saints

Saints (1983)

“To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps… loosen them up.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Virlomi.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)