1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

I buy way too many books.