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“He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 11.

“I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts… And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“How short life is for fools.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 8 “Plans” (p. 159).

“He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Stop threatening me… I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.

“You speak metaphorically, I hope,” said Peggy.
“I hope not,” said Becca. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Perhaps you don’t desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.