“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
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
“That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart” — 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
“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
“The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one’s life without killing that life to accommodate them.” — 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
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.” — 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
“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
“But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with." "Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be… — 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
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — 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
