Orson Scott Card Quotes

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.

“You're such a liar.”
“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.”

Taleswapper looked at Miller.
“I'm nothing,” he said.
“A Christian isn’t nothing,” said Taleswapper.
“I'm no Christian, either.”
“Ah,” said Taleswapper. “A Deist, then, like Tom Jefferson.” The children murmured at his mention of the great man's name.
“Taleswapper, I'm a father who loves his children, a husband who loves his wife, a farmer who pays his debts, and a miller without a millstone.”

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

“You speak metaphorically, I hope,” said Peggy.
“I hope not,” said Becca. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn't wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.

Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

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