Orson Scott Card

Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

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?

I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them — if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

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.

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.