Quotes from Orson Scott Card

somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.

It's better to lose someone you love...than to have no one to lose.

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Lanik : - Je suis en train de perdre Saranna. L'Homee-qui-sais-tout : - C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre. >>

the clock said 0340, and Ender felt groggy as he padded along the corridor behind Mazer. "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

Human is human," said Issib. "But civilized—that's the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction.

Earth was the constant noise of crickets and winds and birds. And the voice of one girl, who spoke to him out of his far-off childhood. The same voice that had once protected him from terror. The same voice that he would do anything to keep alive, even return to school, even leave Earth behind again for another four or forty or four thousand years. Even if she loved Peter more.

If you can understand why he's biting and remove the conditions that make him bite, sometimes that can solve the problem as well. The dog isn't dead. He isn't even your enemy.

He was his own best audience; a man couldn't be a sailor and a leader of men all his life without being quite self-contained.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." "Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

Peter was waiting at the shuttle entrance. "Cut it rather fine, didn't we?" he said. "Is it eighteen hundred?" asked Theresa. "A minute before," said Peter. "Then we're early," said Theresa. She sailed past him, too, and on into the airlock. Behind her, she could hear Peter saying, "What's got into her?" and John Paul answering, "Later.

The idea had been ridiculed in the scientific press, while it was immediately picked up by the lunatic fringe and incorporated into dozens of fringe religions. Once that happened, how could a scientist hope to get funding for such a project?

binding yourself to another person and to the children you make together, that's life.

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

I hate it when you 'deal' with me." "OK, what if I 'handle' you instead?

I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

I suppose your evaluation of his intelligence is just right." "Such a Goldilocks line. Makes me feel so…ursine." "Why can't you just say 'bearlike'?" "Because I know the word 'ursine,' and so do you, and it's fun to say.