Orson Scott Card Quotes
We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
Orson Scott Card
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
Orson Scott Card
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Orson Scott Card
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card
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.
Orson Scott Card
Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
Orson Scott Card
She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'
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'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.
Orson Scott Card
Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.
Orson Scott Card
How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
Orson Scott Card
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.
Orson Scott Card
I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.
Orson Scott Card
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card
He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.
Orson Scott Card
Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
Orson Scott Card
Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
Orson Scott Card
I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?
Orson Scott Card
May the day when you need courage never come.Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.
Orson Scott Card
