1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Because human nature never changes.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.