“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — 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
“So the I.F. is spying on Earth." "Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard." "Good to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually… — 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
“No," said Ender. "I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“How many times are you two going to have to save me from myself before this whole drama runs its course?” asked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Father had warned Rigg how the rules changed when you traveled far, and he always warned that the bigger the city, the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I've thought of all the questions," said Father. "That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“my courage is nothing but borrowed courage.” “Not borrowed,” said Mother. “Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We’ve seen your courage… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“My husband is a good man," she said. "It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I think you can’t possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — 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
“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power… — 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
