“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
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 is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same… — 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
Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — 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
“Petra looked at him as if he were an annoying child. “You really are dim,” she said. “I know he’s dangerous,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it… — 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
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
“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
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won’t eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make… — 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
“Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority,… — 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
