You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It's laugh or cry," said Rigg. "Cry then. Give the old man his due.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them. — 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
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — 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
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When… — 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
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"… — 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
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
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness… — 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
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway?… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from… — 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