Orson Scott Card Quotes

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.

Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!

What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.

Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.

Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

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

[He] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.

She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

All children are manipulators.