Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val — 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
“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.” — 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
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“So you’re coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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 hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I'm talking about the cycle of life. I'm talking about finding some alien creature and deciding to marry her and stay with… — 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
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. — 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
“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
“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart” — 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
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. — 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
“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
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
“Where did this whole thing begin? If what we think of as reality is just a pattern that somebody brought Outside, and the universe… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
