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“Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 9.

“Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 72).

“Maybe he's growing up.
Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.”

Orson Scott Card book The Lost Gate

The Lost Gate (2010)

“"And you actually were cuddly," said Carn. "No offense, but you were spunky."
"If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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

“My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.”

Orson Scott Card

"A Sepulchre of Songs," from The Changed Man (April 1992), ISBN 0-812-53365-8, page 125.

“My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Han Tzu aka Hot Soup
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 14.

“Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.”

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“He could afford to be generous, since he didn’t have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 5.

“Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“You always do that. Make all the questions harder.
I make them truer.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

““Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?”
“Few measure up to my standards, but most try.””

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 97-98
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.”

Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.