Orson Scott Card

What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

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

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.

Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

May the day when you need courage never come.

Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.

Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.

Maybe he's growing up.

Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.

The barrier was only in my mind — which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.

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