Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything.

Together they read the message. COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING. —GOD Bernard went red with anger. "Who did this!" he shouted. "God," said Shen.

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 victim, especially when he strikes back.

it was a kind of magic, like her little fires; a sacrifice that somehow stilled the dark gods that hunted for his soul. Better

My master wishes to see you, said the mounted man. When the planting's done, I said. Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting. Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today. I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation - that is the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on victim, especially when he strikes back.

He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

She longed for death now, not because she hadn't loved life, but because death was now unavoidable, and what cannot be shunned must be embraced

The Earth is deep

That's just one of the drawbacks when you love somebody so much greater than yourself, Miro told himself. I'll never know the difference. She'll come back and I'll be happy with all the time we have together and I'll never know how little time and effort she actually devotes to being with me. A diversion, that's what I am. Then

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Why is it called Dr. Device?" "When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device. M.D. Device." Ender still didn't understand. "M.D. The initials stand for Medical Doctor, too. M.D. Device, therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke." Ender didn't see what was funny about it.

most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.