Orson Scott Card

“I'm not kidding. This is a serious confrontation between good and evil.”

“Everything is,” said Novinha. “It's figuring out which is which that takes so much work.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.

Some people beat their wife and children because they lust for power, but are too weak or stupid to win power in the world

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

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

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

"You must be good company for yourself."

"Not me. My memories."

"Maybe that's who you are, what you remember."

Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy thought. From what they did . I could tell what they thought I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think.