“Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Come with us!” shouted one of the Indonesians. Bean thought this was probably a good idea. Since the assassination attempt had included… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Will the kind of love I have for you be enough, Wang-mu? To reach out to you when I’m in need, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless." "It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are… — 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