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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab2cd27 | It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone. | loneliness | Orson Scott Card | |
| 07de3b2 | See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d8a9701 | Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 46f4100 | Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3b56f45 | I divide officers into four classes--the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately. --Genera.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 97f0b2e | it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 82b5f0b | We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 676d752 | So he believed. Believed, but the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 031f7fb | Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 91c0f69 | Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8d6fb03 | As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus | ender god saints sinners | Orson Scott Card | |
| 34aef7f | He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ea5bee0 | Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing? You answered... I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act. You who speak languages, you are such liars. | liars obligation | Orson Scott Card | |
| f8529a1 | I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then. | violence | Orson Scott Card | |
| 85cb65f | Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1e6db6d | I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get." "That's what you said about the brother." "The brother tested out impossible. For other reasons. Nothing to do with his ability." "Same with the sister. And there are doubts about him. He's too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else's will." "Not if the other person is his enemy." "So w.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 042f8d8 | Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers." | scholars soldiers | Orson Scott Card | |
| 40e7162 | The warmth of mutual respect...Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1ed4338 | The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 793d4bf | It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 72d9dc3 | Keep this in mind - it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e403c7c | But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e99251a | An early fly landed on Mara's eyelid. She shooed it off with a dozy paw as she awakened to peachgold dawn stealing softly over the sleeping dunes.The land lay in a pool of serinity;the sand,now still and cool,awaited sun-warmed day.Somewhere a lark began trilling as it fluttered its morning ascent into the airy heights. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 4979d59 | When weary day does shed its light, I rest my head and dream, I ride the great dark bird of night, so tranquil and serene. Then I can touch the moon afar, which smiles up in the sky, and steal a twinkle from each star, as we go winging by. We'll fly the night to dawning light, and wait 'til dark has ceased, to marvel at the wondrous sight, of sunrise in the east. So slumber on, my little one, float soft as thistledown, and wake to see whe.. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 4db9190 | Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war? | Brian Jacques | ||
| 99d0ec6 | Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound | Robin McKinley | ||
| 3c6e402 | said the pegasus. | pegasus speak | Robin McKinley | |
| f98b46c | Betrayal would be a different sort of sick. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 85dc93f | What this world doesn't have is the three-wishes, go-to-the-ball-and-meet-your-prince, happily-ever-after kind of magic. We have all the mangling and malevolent kinds. Who *invented* this system? | wishes | Robin McKinley | |
| 184d167 | Maybe I should try to be grateful at having been spared intimacy with the most dangerous of the Others. Gave a whole new meaning to the phrase 'under the dark. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 7203ece | There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell. | Robin McKinley | ||
| b5e53b9 | The man paused and added with a grin, "He also wishes your porter's head on a silver plate for not opening the gate at once upon his herald's declaration of his visit. This tale of threatening brigands is all very well, but can't I see he's the sheriff?" | Robin McKinley | ||
| fa997db | Don't you being short?' she blurted. He spread his small hands and looked at them. 'I am a magician, not a princess. A pony costs less to keep than a horse, which means I can buy more books.' He paused. 'It is not always a bad thing, to be overlooked. | overlooked princess short | Robin McKinley | |
| 6d9a1bb | The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again. | Robin McKinley | ||
| e43814c | The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass for it, and it lay down and munched its grass and then chewed its cud like hanging out with dogs [...] was something it always did. Maybe it thought other sheep were boring and that it had finally found its spiritual home. | humor sheep | Robin McKinley | |
| b9e6a94 | The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I had much acquaintance with the stuff. I had always favored plastic and rhinestones. | Robin McKinley | ||
| f743379 | Gods of all the world, say something," she cried, and Talat startled beneath her. "I love you," said Luthe. "I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. Go quickly, for I cannot bear this." She closed her legs violently around the nervous Talat, and he leaped into a gallop. Long after Aerin was out of sight, Luthe lay full length upon the ground, and pressed his ear to it, and list.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2955beb | In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2c252ca | It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 6856c97 | There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country's philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance between earth and air and water; which is to say that things with legs or wings were out of balance with their earth element by walking around on feet or, worse, flying above the earth in the thin substance of air, obviously entirely unsuitable for the support of solid flesh. The momentum all this inappropriate m.. | magic | Robin McKinley | |
| b73d4ae | Once upon a time we all walked on the golden road. It was a fair highway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly mingled, and every turn and dip revealed a fresh charm and a new loveliness to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes. On that road we heard the song of morning stars; we drank in fragrances aerial and sweet as a May mist; we were rich in gossamer fancies and iris hopes; our hearts sought and found the boon.. | the-golden-road youth | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0b62e8c | At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her. | older-women power | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| adc3605 | Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her." | self-discipline | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| 90335e3 | It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated. | Richard A. Knaak |