Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

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 don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.

Dona Crista laughed a bit. Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice. I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

So you love me, said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand, said Bean. You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice. That's nice, she said...

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

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 map.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.