# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Ships Of Earth

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

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [The Ships Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/you-always-back

## More from this book

> I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

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> Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

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

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