1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I spend all my time thinking things through. It’s acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn’t prepared to bloody them.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.

Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn’t think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn’t find such a place in himself.

I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.

Evil isn’t best served by equally evil servants.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along – the same person that I am today.

Mazer, i don’t want to keep dreaming these things. I’m afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don’t want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life.

They also knew that Ender trusted them to do as they judged best when he gave them no orders.