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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card
Men, Weak Man, Blame
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.198, Macmillan

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Orson Scott Card
Hate, Stop Hating, Knows
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.271, Macmillan

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, People, Different

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card
Parenting, Language Words, Silence

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Sometimes, Enders Game
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.20, Macmillan

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

Orson Scott Card
Impossible, Unlikely
Orson Scott Card (2016). “The Memory of Earth and The Call of Earth”, p.109, Macmillan

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

Orson Scott Card
What Matters, Together, Gone
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.113, Macmillan

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Orson Scott Card
Mean, Doubt

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…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
Love, Real, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.274, Tor Books

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Orson Scott Card
Smart, Stupid, Decision
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Gate Thief”, p.40, Macmillan

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Orson Scott Card
Body, Humans, Greater
Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Worthing Saga”, p.80, Tor Books

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

Orson Scott Card
Fire, Air, Earth
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.7, Macmillan

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card
Choices, Soul, Responsible
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Orson Scott Card
Memories, Mean, Thinking
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Orson Scott Card
Stupidity, Idiot, Rationalize
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.291, Macmillan

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Orson Scott Card
Character, Mean, Doe
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint: Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an award-winning author”, p.7, Writer's Digest Books

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Orson Scott Card
Prayer, Thinking, Romance

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Orson Scott Card
Breakfast, Please, Disillusion
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.37, Macmillan

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Orson Scott Card
Lying, Stories
Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.198, Macmillan

Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?

Orson Scott Card
Sacrifice, Thinking, Animal

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Orson Scott Card
Opposites, Happy Endings, Sometimes

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Orson Scott Card
Thinking, Bother, Wells
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.36, Macmillan

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

Orson Scott Card
Strong, Distance, Trying
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1238, Macmillan

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

Orson Scott Card
Hurt, Pain, Dirty
Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Orson Scott Card
Taught, Teach, Knows
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.137, Macmillan

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