Orson Scott Card Quotes

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away

If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.

It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they really didn't.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

Knowing Lissa missed me hurt almost more than if she'd completely written me off. I'd never wanted to hurt her. Even when I'd resented her for feeling like she was controlling my life, I'd never hated her. I loved her like a sister and couldn't stand the thought of her suffering now on my behalf. How had things gotten so screwed up between us?

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

Sex problems never are, they are troubles of the heart.

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.