With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. — 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
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — 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
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — 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
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I would have the taste of poison in my mouth all the days of my life, if I went back home and… — 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
“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
“That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.” — 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
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now… — 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
“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
“Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break… — 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
“...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
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
“Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Come with us!” shouted one of the Indonesians. Bean thought this was probably a good idea. Since the assassination attempt had included… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Will the kind of love I have for you be enough, Wang-mu? To reach out to you when I’m in need, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I had no idea we planned to be so ruthless." "It was not publicized or even discussed with the political arm of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own.” — 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
Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in… — 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
“Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.” — 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
“You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and… — 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
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