Quotes from Orson Scott Card

I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

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

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and theres not much deserving about the matter.

You cant change what you dont understand.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Just because you believe it doesnt make it so.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?