Quotes from Orson Scott Card

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

I think it's impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

Only a fool can't be fooled.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.

Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.