A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to… — 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
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — 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
