1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings – that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

It’s called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you.

You get used to being naked, that’s the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who’s looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.

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

Life is a suicide mission.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

It’s what I was born for, isn’t it? If I don’t go, why am I alive?