“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
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — 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
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you… — 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
Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Then the raft rocked, and she turned to see Ender calmly crushing the life out of the wasp with one finger. "These… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail. — 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
“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want… — 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
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
