Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 24)

“They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

Religion , Light

“Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

Hate

“You are not what you seem.
So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

People , Thinking

“I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.”

Orson Scott Card

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

World

“You can afford me,” said Jane. “I’m cheap and you’re rich.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 198
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“Only a fool can't be fooled.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

Fools

“I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

Falseness

“There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

Feeling , Rage , Anger

“May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

Courage

“Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

Thinking , Time , Forgetting

“This is what I want to do forever, each one thought. Rise in the morning, come to the mill, and work all day with him beside me. Never mind that the wish was impossible. Never mind that they might never see each other again, once the boy left for his apprenticeship back in the place of his birth. That only added to the sweetness of the moment, which would soon become a memory, would soon become a dream.”

Orson Scott Card

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

Dreams , Boy , Birth , Memory

“A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.”

Orson Scott Card

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

Reading

“Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

Women

“Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.”

Orson Scott Card

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

Men , Law , Strong

“Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

People , Imagination

“Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.”

Orson Scott Card

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

Truth

““A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.”
“Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.”
“Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 74).

Fear , Thinking , Loyalty

“They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“She knew that her feelings toward Bean were completely different. No such dreams and fantasies. Just a sense of complete acceptance. She belonged with Bean, not the way that a wife belonged with a husband or, God forbid, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, but rather way the left hand belonged to the right. They simply fit. Nothing exciting about it, nothing to write home about. But it could be counted on.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Petra
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)

God , Dreams , Way , Feeling