Orson Scott Card Quotes
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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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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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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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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 dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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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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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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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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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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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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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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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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That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
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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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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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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 think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.