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“As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?…And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 15.

“There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.”

Orson Scott Card book Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 9 “Expeditions” (p. 166).

“The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.”

Orson Scott Card book Saints

Saints (1983)

“Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps… loosen them up.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.”

Orson Scott Card

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

““What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?”
“It has problems, I admit.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

““Part of the test,” said Sillain, “is seeing how well you obey orders.”
“Then I fail,” said John Paul.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 33
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

““This is today’s puzzle,” he said. “If the act of denial can be taken as proof of the crime, how can an innocent man defend himself?”
The tithingmen caught him by the arms. “Come along now, Mr. Emerson, and don’t go trying any philosophy on us.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it,” said Waldo. “Philosophy would be wasted against such sturdy-headed men as you.”
“Glad you know it,” said the tithingman proudly. “Wouldn’t want you thinking we weren’t true Christians.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 9.

“I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)