Might-have-beens are a bitch.

Orson Scott Card

Tags: stone

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This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?"
"Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego."
"You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

Orson Scott Card

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I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Orson Scott Card

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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

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All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?

Orson Scott Card

Tags: life

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Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...

As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage

Orson Scott Card

Tags: bigotry orson-scott-card zealotry anti-gay anti-glbt

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because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Orson Scott Card

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Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

Orson Scott Card

Tags: ender-wiggin

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We're an ecological disaster."
"Exactly," said the expendable.

Orson Scott Card

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But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with."
"Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish. Watch the pyramids being unbuilt. See the ice ages go and come in reverse. Watch the de-extinction of the dinosaurs as a meteor leaps out of the Gulf of Mexico."
"I will have no useful task. I will not be able to help the human race in any way. My existence will have no meaning after you are dead."
"Now you know how humans feel all the time.

Orson Scott Card

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