“After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who… — 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
I think it's impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a… — 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
“I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a… — 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
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to… — 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