Orson Scott Card Quotes

He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

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.

I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Gods are like that. It isn't enough for them to run everything. They want to be famous, too.

Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?

Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.

You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed — I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?