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““Are you all right, sir?” asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“I have no secret thoughts… Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them — if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.”

Orson Scott Card book Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else’s plan?”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. “At least not without good reason.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15.

“Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I’m a terrible salesman,” he finally said. “I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 12 “Springfield” (p. 250).

“Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 1 “Nueva Barcelona” (p. 19).

“I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Petra Arkanian Delphiki.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence—what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.”

Orson Scott Card

"Atlantis," from Keeper of Dreams (2008).

“I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don’t understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 17.