“They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not… — 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
You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write… — 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
What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning 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
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And… — 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
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — 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
