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“The White man never guessed at what the Red man saw and heard and felt. The White man brought death and emptiness to this place. The White man cut down wise old trees with much to tell; young saplings with many lifetimes of life ahead; and the White man never asked, Will you be glad to make a lodgehouse for me and my tribe? Hack and cut and chop and burn, that was the White man’s way. Take from the forest, take from the land, take from the river, but put nothing back. The White man killed animals he didn’t need, animals that did him no harm; yet if a bear woke hungry in the winter and took so much as a single young pig, the White man hunted him down and killed him in revenge. He never felt the balance of the land at all.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“I've done my best, but the boy is unteachable. He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science.”
“In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.”
“He is unwilling to accept the idea that some things remain mysteries, comprehensible only to the mind of God. Ambiguity makes him saucy, and paradox causes open rebellion.”

Orson Scott Card

“An obnoxious child.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.

“You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.”

Orson Scott Card

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

“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.

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

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

“He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)