Orson Scott Card Quotes

I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.

Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.
Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.

I'm nobody's child.
You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.

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.

I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.

She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.

We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.

Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?

Something had been given back to him. And because [she] had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.

How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?

Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?

That was the most terrible thing that a woman could [??] to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.