1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

So when he reached up to his ear and turned off the interface for the first timesince he had implanted it, Jane did not feel it as the meaningless switch-off of atrivial communications device. She felt it as her dearest and only friend, herlover, her husband, her brother, her father, her child-- all telling her, abruptly,inexplicably, that she should cease to exist. It was as if she had suddenly beenplaced in a dark room with no windows and no door. As if she had been blindedor buried alive.

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Sólo se desea lo que no se tiene.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.

I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

I just don't know if people actually perceive which events are miracles and which are not. There are no doubt many miracles claimed which were not miracles at all. There are also probably many miracles that no one recognized when they occurred.

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.”"Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be shot.