Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 10)

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”

“I am a creature of chemicals.”

“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

“You underestimate yourself.”

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

“The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.”

“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”

“Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.”

“It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.”

““I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”
“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?””

“It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.”

“He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.”

“Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.”

“When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.”

““You're such a liar.”
“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.””

“I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.”

“It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.”