1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.