“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
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — 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
“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they… — 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
“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
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are.… — 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
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh, you're willing to concede God's existence, but that's not what I meant. I mean believe in him the way a mother… — 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
“Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.” — 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
“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
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then… — 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
“Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Will people really go?” “People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Only the mother tree remained in the middle of the clearing, bathed in light, heavy with fruit, festooned with blossoms, a perpetual… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to… — 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
“...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
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
