Orson Scott Card Quotes

Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.

You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.

You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

What Alvin figured out was that when you're Making, you don't use people like tools. You don't wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they're right.

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.

It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.

Maybe he's growing up.
Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.

What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

“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.”

“Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.”
“Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.” Alvin chuckled grimly. “Oh, that mouth you’ve got.”
“You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.”