Skip to content

Orson Scott Card on Anniversary

born 1951 United States

← All quotes by Orson Scott Card

21 quotes

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Saints (1983)

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

The Ships Of Earth (1994)

That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, when a man and a woman care for each other, that doesn't always mean they have to sleep together or live together.

Homebody (1998)

He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.

Stone Tables (1997)

The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Treasure Box (1996)

You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.

Hart's Hope (1983)

It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

Songmaster (1979)

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

Enchantment (1999)

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

Homebody (1998)

How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.

Enchantment (1999)

You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.

Earthfall (1995)

When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

Hart's Hope (1983)

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.

The Memory Of Earth (1992)

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

Lost Boys (1992)

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

The Ships Of Earth (1994)

She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.

Hart's Hope (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orson Scott Card (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.