Orson Scott Card
Quotes
People revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.
Failing to try and stop a murder that you might easily stop — how is that not murder?
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all.
No doubt it was all an elaborate pretense at normality, but in Valentine's experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles.
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Yes, she was opinionated, headstrong, bossy, and quick to reach conclusions. But she could also listen to an opposing view, change her mind when she needed to. She could listen, and so he could speak. Perhaps with her he could still be [himself].
Why did I come? I didn't come. I went. I wasn't coming here, to meet these people. I was leaving there. Getting away. Only I tricked myself.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
She's so full of pain, she's incapable of taking anyone else's pain seriously.
Because everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat... You're the one who uses our love for you to try to control us.
"A male does his best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible." "I’ve done the wandering. Somehow I missed out on the copulating."
