Orson Scott Card Quotes

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Love is different at different stages of your life.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.