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Quotes from Enchantment — Orson Scott Card

born 1951 United States

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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

Enchantment (1999)

In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.

Enchantment (1999)

I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.

Enchantment (1999)

How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

Enchantment (1999)

Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

Enchantment (1999)

Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?

Enchantment (1999)

Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.

Enchantment (1999)

I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.

Enchantment (1999)

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

Enchantment (1999)

More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.

Enchantment (1999)

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

Enchantment (1999)

How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.

Enchantment (1999)

Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.

Enchantment (1999)

"Women's intuition" wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

Enchantment (1999)

It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.

Enchantment (1999)

To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.

Enchantment (1999)

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

Enchantment (1999)

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