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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be… — 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
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
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third. — 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
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
“Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?” “For both… — 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
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
“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
“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
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“are more to a woman than any man can be. We pretend otherwise. We pretend we bear them for him, that we… — 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
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
