Orson Scott Card

You always do that. Make all the questions harder.

I make them truer.

Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.

A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.

“I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. “At least not without good reason.”

Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

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

Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

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.

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