“Perhaps it's called the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of… — 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
“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
“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
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — 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
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
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.” — 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
“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“This is the most important thing the humans have taught me. The thing they're teaching us right now. You see, they are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.” — 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
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
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time." "Surely you're not saying that God had to… — 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
“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
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — 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
