1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better – So why do I hate my life?

While you’re governing the colony and I’m writing political philosophy, They’ll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other’s room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

That’s just one of the drawbacks when you love somebody so much greater than yourself, Miro told himself. I’ll never know the difference. She’ll come back and I’ll be happy with all the time we have together and I’ll never know how little time and effort she actually devotes to being with me. A diversion, that’s what I am. Then.

Nature can’t evolve a species that hasn’t the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

I’ve had enough adventures,” said Noxon, “to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there’s nothing wrong. You’re not hungry, you’re not in pain. Nobody’s making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you’re impatient for something else to happen.

We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

I didn’t know how you’d get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who’ve forgotten their own childhood.

A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.