Orson Scott Card Quotes - Page 5

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes should ever have.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

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.

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.

Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music?

How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.

Because human nature never changes.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.