Orson Scott Card Quotes About Valentines

Quotes about: Valentines

• Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.

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  Sweet, Believe, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.17, Hachette UK

• If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

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  Valentine, Today, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.15, Macmillan

• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

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  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

• Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

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  Mother, Memories, Reading

• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

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  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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