Orson Scott Card Quotes

He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

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.

May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.

That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.

Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

The barrier was only in my mind — which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.

I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

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

I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?