Orson Scott Card Quotes

A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.

A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.

To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

[He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

I wanted your songs.
You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.

He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.