1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.