1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

The root of magic is love, the trunk is service.

...Everybody needs rescuing. Lonely people need rescuing, anyway.There's nothing but lonely people in this world. Even people who think they're not lonely, they're aching with loneliness or the fear of being lonely. So we saved each other every day for the past couple of months.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

Everything we do means something.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.