Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

It will hurt. said Petra. But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, Jane intoned. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

You made them hate me. Said Ender So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be. -Graff

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.