1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.

Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak.

Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.

You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.

As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

...the fact that you have belonged to the human race more deeply and fully than most people could even imagine, find a way to believe that, and don't hide from life in the unfathomable, lightless depths of relativistic space.

Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.