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“She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.
Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“She got out of the car in a smooth motion that [he] found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“A liar sees lies,” said Taleswapper. “Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

“The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 5 “Crystal Ball” (p. 82).

“In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 18.

“It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes—enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 185
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

““I have no fear of war,” said Arthur Stuart. “That’s when kings get to show their mettle.”
“You’re thinking of chess,” said Margaret. “In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.””

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 14.

“Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 18.

“It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“They are beautiful monsters… And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.”

Orson Scott Card

Wyrms (1987).

“You never needed anybody.
If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.
Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)