Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 5)

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.”

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”

“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.”

“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”

“The enemy gate is down.”

“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

“Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.”

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

“Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.”