Orson Scott Card Quotes

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care