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“The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”

Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?"
"Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers."
"Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?”

Orson Scott Card

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

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.”

Orson Scott Card book Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.

“When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him "Look at what you made me do!" That's the moral universe that [they] always lived in.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“What is the White man? What does he do?
The White man is like a human being, but he crushes all other living things under his feet.
Then why, O Ta-Kumsaw, when I look into your heart, why is it that you do not wish to hurt the White man, that you do not wish to kill the White man?
The White man doesn’t know the evil that he does. The White man doesn’t feel the peace of the land, so how can he tell the little deaths he makes? I can’t blame the White man. But I can’t let him stay. So when I make him leave this land, I won’t hate him.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.

“Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 2.

“I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?”

Orson Scott Card

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