Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'
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He was only six, but he already knew that he hated it when he had to do what other people wanted, even when he knew that they were wrong. He didn’t want to be a soldier. He didn’t want to kill. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to obey stupid people.
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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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'You must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
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She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?