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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c19e52b | Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 94b7a8c | Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bc6301b | There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d21fd1c | Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter. | science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8788842 | Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c4f125c | If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0d317fe | It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c01d74e | Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7e00910 | I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry. | parents | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5c597d7 | Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "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." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats,.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 092333c | The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. | pain power | Orson Scott Card | |
| c50eab7 | Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 4b73686 | I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly--I'll beat you unfairly first. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ad2b439 | So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bd2c07c | Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing. | starship wang-mu | Orson Scott Card | |
| fb02673 | the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3bd9b13 | Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance." | human-nature philosophical robots thrill | Orson Scott Card | |
| b6835d1 | You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bf9d8a1 | All the way up to the surface, Valentine struggled to make sense of what had happened. She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 66fc210 | I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| aaa1347 | Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? | tragedy | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2c5c136 | Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| f6ed4db | She believed that 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. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5677399 | I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| bef82ae | Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ac9008f | It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the children could see through their game. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 53c4622 | If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8a83a53 | Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e1aed95 | Is not the light of day a wondrous thing? It banishes all fears and worries of the previous night. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 7f2c2c5 | Let me wander here forever, through the glades where once I played, Long ago in carefree seasons, mid the noontide sun and shade. I will see again before me, all those smiling friends I knew, gone alas to memory's keeping, faithful comrades good and true. Oh, those days of youth and splendour, when we dreamed of glorious war, vows were made to keep forever, and return back here once more. Then the clouds began to gather, winter came, we mar.. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 8a29206 | Songs just spring into my head. Silly, isn't it. Sometimes old Goody Stickle says that it's Mossflower singing through me. Now and then she'll say it's a sight of season the hasn't yet shone upon. -Gonff | singing songs | Brian Jacques | |
| 22d71db | Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that was going to blow his mood.) | humor | Robin McKinley | |
| 31ddf0a | But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry. | Robin McKinley | ||
| f4556da | One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one -- or two -- do come to something. | one-s-mind opportunities | Robin McKinley | |
| af67e18 | Yes. Isn't it ... silly ... how ... upsetting ... just thinking can be?" "It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 688718f | It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier. | Robin McKinley | ||
| e671548 | She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people. | earth-mother empowerment identity self-realization | Robin McKinley | |
| 8bcd335 | Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge. | loneliness strength | Robin McKinley | |
| 57755dc | At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 1b0294a | No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived in a huge house on the other side of town with a dad who was never home and who none of our parents had ever met. And possibly because he was an arrogant moody stuck-on-himself creepazoid And here he wasn't even a real gizmohead. He was just a grind. And a werewolf. | werewolf | Robin McKinley | |
| 826ba5d | I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 70971b5 | Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 7d36c1d | HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to.... | Robin McKinley | ||
| d5bbde8 | She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep. | Robin McKinley |