Orson Scott Card Quotes
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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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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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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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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How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
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'Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.''Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.'
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.