Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.
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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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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
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For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
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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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He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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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.