Orson Scott Card Quotes
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.
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.
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.
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.
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
