Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Oh, you're willing to concede God's existence, but that's not what I meant. I mean believe in him the way a mother means it when she says to her son, I believe in you. She's not saying she believes that he exists -- what is that worth? -- she's saying she believes in his future. She trusts that he'll do all the good that is in him to do. She puts the future in his hands. That's how she believes in him.

he was patient with their tendency to ignore him, and learned to make his proposals and suggest his plans through the few adults who listened to him, and let them present them as their own. He was concerned, not about getting credit, but about getting the job done.

God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses.

That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets and winds and birds.

Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

Puede que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirse en lo que se finge ser.

A maimed bunny rabbit could pin me in under two seconds. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

You don't understand how important faith is to the people of Lusitania,' said Peregrine 'And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

The law didn't make witch trials happen. It was the hunger for witch trials that got them to make up the law.

And because it was possible, there was a part of him that wanted to play it out, see where this path led. I

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

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I'm not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.

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 tell us is true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book?

Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.

You're a strange kind of boy, said Achilles. I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission, said Suriyawong. But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind those words.

O Sehnor e descrente?' You're an unbeliever? 'So descredo no increivel.' I only disbelieve the unbelievable.