Orson Scott Card Quotes

“Black with hate,” said Becca. “You are gathering your people with hate.”
“Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw.
“That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently.

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.

All children are manipulators.

Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.

“This is Alvin Smith,” said Cooper. “He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.”

"Women's intuition" wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

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

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

"And you actually were cuddly," said Carn. "No offense, but you were spunky." "If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.

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.

You can't change what you don't understand.

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.