Orson Scott Card Quotes

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.

I am a creature of chemicals.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

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

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.

You will learn to defeat the enemy.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.