I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — 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
“If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn’t seem to be the trend at the moment.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Me? I’m nothing. I’m a fart in the air conditioning. I’m always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.” — 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
“For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer… — 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
“Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And it came down to this: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond 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
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” — 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
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — 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
Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of… — 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
“Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most… — 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
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own… — 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
