Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
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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.
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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.
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'My religion,' said Ms. Brown, 'is to try to falsify all hypotheses.'
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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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.
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If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
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The barrier was only in my mind - which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.