1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

If you had any brains, you’d be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

As for Peter – we didn’t even suggest a meeting, and so he didn’t have a chance to tell us to go to hell.

In Valentine’s experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles.

I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.

Oh, Pipo, I’d be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice” I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

What I’m telling you is, there’s some people who do things so bad it tears at the fabric of the world, and then there’s some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word “we” came to his lips much more easily than “I.

We don’t admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.