Orson Scott Card Quotes
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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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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''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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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
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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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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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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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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.
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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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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.