Quotes from Orson Scott Card

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

Why do I feel a song coming on? said Bean. The sarcastic words slipped out of him unbidden.

A minor request, said Mazer. Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Inside us there is a place that is our true self.

Think like a machine instead of a boy.

He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.

The stone loves you. Don't you see it? Hasn't it shown you its love all your life?

Mikal sintió un dolor que no podía soportar. Puso su mano en el fuego hasta que el dolor de su cuerpo forzó a remitir el dolor de su corazón. Entonces retiró la mano, la frotó y se preguntó por qué las heridas internas no podían curarse con tanta facilidad.

I'll obey you now, said Runnel. Brick laughed. Except when you think I'm wrong.

And you're the one who thought it was too risky to go through a gate. That's why we're such a great team, said Eric, We're both completely stupid about different things.

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marriage is not a covenant between a man and a woman... Marriage is a covenant between a man and woman on the one side and their community on the other. To marry according to the law of the community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to be a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, or a traitor. The one constant in every society of human kind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults.

I don't know what's going on in the world, he said. Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son was a fraud with the ability to hide my own memories from me. And now you come along. The captain at the gate told me you were executed and buried yesterday. He spoke to you? He didn't say a word to me, I said. Don't change the subject, young man. I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature. Nature's virtue is intact. I just know some different laws.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I mean. I think he understood him and loved him before he spoke." Mother didn't answer, because she knew that it was true. "And I know he loves Grego, and Quara, and Olhado. And Miro, and even Quim. And me. I know he loves me. And when he shows me that he loves me, I know it's true because he never lies to anybody.

No system works well unless good people do their jobs with integrity, and then almost any system works well enough.

Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way

when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson says, but chaos and oppression.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies. To have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Só descredo no incrível." I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.