Orson Scott Card Quotes

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was.” Jason smiled. “But he meant well.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.