Orson Scott Card

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.