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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a6daa33 | A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 572d80a | For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3a6701e | He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it | games | Orson Scott Card | |
| 7b5b7a9 | So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserable tyrant I had to call Father. How many unbelievably stupid heroes in stories did insanely dangerous things because they were in love? More to the pint, how many insane things am I going to do because of it? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ae79f7f | the cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b82e32b | Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2126391 | I've thought of all the questions," said Father. "That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e935d54 | Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier. | ender-wiggin graff isolation loneliness resentment soldier | Orson Scott Card | |
| d91f648 | Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes. | home | Orson Scott Card | |
| cb13c28 | It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b541e8a | A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c05d2e1 | The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him." | steadfastness | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3300616 | I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence...You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions. | mythology religion spirituality | Orson Scott Card | |
| 7ad40b1 | He can have friends. It's parents he can't have. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e25806a | Just one more example of why a commander who ruled by fear and made all the decisions himself would always be beaten, sooner or later. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e27e6af | The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward--startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6c354af | Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| da93004 | We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand." Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a67d393 | Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me. | ender-wiggin | Orson Scott Card | |
| 36b7e2d | Redwall | Brian Jacques | ||
| 743b13e | When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker! | hares martin-the-warrior the-legend-of-luke | Brian Jacques | |
| eb979b3 | Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 16f97e9 | It's kind of interesting you're driving a car big enough for a wolfhound and a mastiff to get in the back of today," I said. "And a greyhound, a dark brown bear, and a brindle utility vehicle," said Jill. "Greyhounds don't take up much room," I said. "They're like dog silhouettes." | greyhounds humor | Robin McKinley | |
| 82eb836 | Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. | humor | Robin McKinley | |
| ffa22b3 | The Pavilion did not burn by lightening," she said. He hesitated again. "It holds the memory of fire," he said at last. "Lightening is young and strong and thoughtless, but it could also wish to visit the site of some particular victory of one of its kind--as a young soldier recently commissioned might visit the scene of some great battle--" | Robin McKinley | ||
| 6c1c703 | Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin | puppies | Robin McKinley | |
| a844a97 | I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin | Robin McKinley | ||
| 5e2e1c3 | There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 6bf7106 | But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one-- | Robin McKinley | ||
| 9353da6 | She looked up at once, pierced to the heart by the sorrow in his voice and knowing, from the question and the sorrow together, that he had no notion of what had just happened to her, nor why. From that she pitied him so greatly that she cupped her hands again to hold a little of the salamander's heat, not for serenity but for the warmth of friendship. But as she felt the heat again running through her, she knew at once it bore a different q.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| f601490 | Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please. | Robin McKinley | ||
| c896844 | No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done- | Robin McKinley | ||
| 9c1a155 | Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.' 'Thank you,' said Robin. | marian men robin will | Robin McKinley | |
| a51e6de | Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| bb14658 | And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3d35e6e | One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| a153a3b | It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder | pride revolution | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 82e714b | They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| ec409e9 | God hates a coward." I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for." | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| ac5e8c6 | TAL HAD TO laugh. Hardly presentable! Wasn't it strange, the way humans looked at themselves with eyes of flesh and not of the Spirit? Certainly that dear woman had been through mire and filth of every degree; she was scarred, exhausted, ragged, and dirty. But to the angels, she appeared as God Himself saw her, just as any other redeemed saint of the living God: pure, shining, clean, dressed in garments as white as snow. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| d0d69b9 | What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women. | Mary Daly | ||
| 2acd8e9 | Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions. | Starhawk | ||
| e515b82 | Granted, vegetarian naming wrests meat eating from a context of acceptance; this does not invalidate its mission. One thing must be acknowledged about vegetarian naming as exemplified in the above examples: these are true words. The dissonance they produce is not due to their being false, but to their being too accurate. These words do not adhere to our common discourse which presumes the edibility of animals. Just as feminists proclaimed t.. | Carol J. Adams | ||
| 3733fa1 | Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle. | Dick Francis |