Quotes from Orson Scott Card

Lared sat before the fire, watching the flames trying to escape up the chimney, always dying before they quite made it out. *

Father had warned Rigg how the rules changed when you traveled far, and he always warned that the bigger the city, the lower the level of civilization, which had seemed to make no sense to Rigg until now.

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

Expendable Ram says, 'Good.'" "Expendable Ram can eat poo," said Rigg. "All expendables can process any organic matter they ingest and extract energy from it.

He was scum, and so it was all right that they treated him like scum.' 'And you think he wasn't?' 'No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

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. - Alai pg.216

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Bu, Ay bu gece istikametini deÄŸiÅŸtirip, ters yönde hareket edecek demeye benzemez, çünkü bu durumda ay?n söylediklerinizi iÅŸitmesi gerekir. Fakat Bu k?z kolay lokma, ya da Åžu adam bir h?rs?z, derseniz, o kiÅŸinin size inan?p inanmamas?n?n bir önemi kalmaz, diÄŸer herkes sözünüze inanmaya ve kar??lar?ndaki kiÅŸiye haklar?da söylenen ÅŸeyler doÄŸruymuÅŸ gibi davranmaya baÅŸlar.

We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.