Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 13)

“I don’t plan to die for any cause,” said Jim Bowie. “Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).

“He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 9.

Decision , Future

“The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.”

Orson Scott Card

How Software Companies Die

“I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 21).

People , Truth , Lying , Time

“You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

Love , Secret

“All children are manipulators.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

Children

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

Thinking , Evil , Time , Personality

“This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.”

Orson Scott Card book Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

Love

“Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

God

“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.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 2.

Family , Thinking

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.

Life , God , People , Cats

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

Women , Men , Soul , Passion

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

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

“Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 6.

“Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.

Stupidity , Madness , Night

“Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

Feeling , Thinking

“The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.

God

“Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.

Life , Men

“What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

Marriage