I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If… — 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
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so… — 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