Quotes from Orson Scott Card

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Their friendship, remembered from the battle school days, gradually disappeared. It was to each other that they became close; it was with each other that they exchanged confidences.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

The devil?" Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. "Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was." Jason smiled. "But he meant well.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

No, said Ender. I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do what our body can do. My parents believe in souls. I've known people who were absolutely sure. Smart people. Good people. So just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I'm sure it can't be true.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men.

One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. "You dumb as a thumb.

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

But how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely—those were questions whose answers could not be found.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

People are never fair, even when they try to be...and few are the ones who try.

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

I know you!' She insisted. 'No you don't. But that's all right, because I don't know me either, let alone you. We never understand anybody, not even ourselves.

must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Europe was already Europe.

The power to kill is the only power that matters. -Enders game.