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“Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.”

Orson Scott Card

“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child… Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”

Orson Scott Card

“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish… Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”

Orson Scott Card