“Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You can't leave [the children] to God when God has left them to us." - Sister Carlotta” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Our understanding of doctrine is not perfect, and no matter what the popes have said, I don't believe for a moment that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Someday they will die, their children will die, all children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The kids are vicious. They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna.” “When did you read Pollyanna?” “It was a book?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So the I.F. is spying on Earth." "Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard." "Good to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Shadows that children make on the wall,” said Petra, “and someone turns the light off.” “Or turns a brighter one on,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
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