1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.

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.

This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.

My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.

So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."That's nice," she said...

it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before

You're a strange kind of boy," said Achilles."I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission," said Suriyawong. "But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.

No soy la misma persona, realmente, de un libro a otro, porque cada mundo cambia quien soy, incluso mientras anoto su historia. Y este mundo más que ningún otro.

Might-have-beens are a bitch.