Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. — 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 carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen. "Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I’m on his death list, too.” “Then why are you still alive?” asked Peter. “Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one… — 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
“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps… — 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
“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
“Still not dead,” she said. She had greeted him with these words each time she woke during the past few days. At… — 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
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
“They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.” — 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
