Orson Scott CardWhere loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Children of the Mind, p.79, Macmil… ▶371Thought
Orson Scott CardWhoop-de-do, said Ram. What? I'm celebrating. Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable. Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you … ▶371Humor
Orson Scott CardBut Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2011). Pathfinder, p.1… ▶372Life
Orson Scott CardNobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Sh… ▶361ThoughtTruth
Orson Scott CardWhen you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.373Humor
Orson Scott CardThe opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.373SadnessTime
Orson Scott CardI think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not true because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the p… ▶351HumanityLifeReading
Orson Scott CardI will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often. 351HopeThought
Orson Scott CardWhat a waste of time to be posthumously famous.373Time
Orson Scott CardIf you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, whi… ▶341ReadingThought
Orson Scott CardI'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how th… ▶363Thought
Orson Scott CardThis emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right? I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me? Yes, she said. That's influenza, said… ▶352Love
Orson Scott CardEverything possible to be believed is an image of truth. -Taleswapper374Truth
Orson Scott CardFrom now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2013). Ender's Game … ▶374Philosophy
Orson Scott CardWithholding a decision is a decision. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet, p.339, Macmillan352Humanity
Orson Scott CardEnder's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to… ▶353HopePoliticsReading
Orson Scott CardWhen you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wac… ▶364HopeHumanity
Orson Scott CardWe care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.364Philosophy
Orson Scott CardI be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out… ▶331Humor
Orson Scott CardGod, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of s… ▶353Sadness
Orson Scott CardOh, Val, said Father. All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier. No greatness, then. Val, said Mother, goodness trumps greatness any day. Not i… ▶342DeathHumanityLife
Orson Scott CardOne judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers? ✨ Orson Scott Card (2010)… ▶375LifeLoveThought
Orson Scott CardYou're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.354ThoughtTime
Orson Scott CardHe is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Speaker for the Dead, p.95, Macmillan321Death
Orson Scott CardNo book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.321Reading
Orson Scott CardFirequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? ✨ Children of the Mind. Book by Orson Scott Card, August, 1996.332ReadingThought
Orson Scott CardThere's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you ✨ Orson Scott Card (2010). Ender's Game, p.38,… ▶343Humanity
Orson Scott CardGood people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. ✨ Homebody. Book by Orson Scott Card, March 4, 1998.332HumanityReadingThought
Orson Scott CardGrief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet, p.54, Macmillan343SadnessThought
Orson Scott Cardthe seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to… ▶365Humanity
