Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
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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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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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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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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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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
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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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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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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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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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'You,' said Purity, 'have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.''But surrounded by Americans as I am,' said Cooper, 'my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.'
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.