1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Firequencher raised his hand. “I’ve been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That’s life. It hurts, it’s dirty, and it feels very, very good.

He thinks I’m like him, Mazer realized. That’s what we do as humans; it’s how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we’re nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

I’ve learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.

Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? ‘Of course,’ Ender said contemptuously. ‘I’m not as close to the floor as you are.

Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

The stone loves you. Don’t you see it? Hasn’t it shown you its love all your life?

Here are our failures, and here is our greatness; we did not mean to hurt you, and we forgive you for our death.

Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.