Orson Scott Card Quotes on Acceptance
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's ok to die sometimes
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I never thought id lose you again But I knew we had lost each other on the day you first loved [him]. Then you should have told me! I wouldn't have done it That's why I didn't tell you. But it isn't true ... You would have done it anyway. And I wanted you to. You've never been happier.
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Are you ready to reveal yourself to the rest of humanity? I've always been ready. The question is, are they ready to know me?
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We realized that you were truly alive and beautiful in your perverse and tragic lonely way.
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That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very very good.
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It's tragic isn't it, that we don't always get what we want in this world.
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That was all she needed - was for him to tell her he didn't expect her to be the waterseer all the time, that he was marrying the fragile, imperfect human being, and not the overpowering image she inadvertently put on.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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All it did was let her step off that brink into the dark unknown with a smile on her face and pride in her heart. It made death sweet to her.
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Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else
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So why do you intend to inflict your wisdom on this poor unfortunate man you say you love? Because some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her
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What [he] felt for her was genuine, and not just for love of her perfect flesh. I know [him] truly, and I know that 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
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There's a lot of guys around who are better for you than I am
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Wishes are a waste of time... They only make you unhappy
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Cristoforo smiled, held out his arms, and embraced the lying bastard
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One of the dangers of being so close to the center of power - one had to accept the whims of the powerful
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Ansset could clearly hear the fear singing through the back of his brave words. Well, why not? Death was certain now, and Ansset knew of no one, except perhaps an old man like Mikal, who could look at death, especially death that also meant failure, without some fear
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[he] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed
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She did not try to persuade him. Just hoped that, before she left, she could see a change in his view
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They were alive and so I was and I had no objections
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For once, I could look forward to the relief of talking to someone to whom I didn't have to lie, someone who might be able to understand what I had done, who might not condemn me for it
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Of course she wasn't going to call, he knew that.
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Please, someday if I'm real good, can't I be a real girl?
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Which is why she knew that her feelings toward Bean were completely different. No such dreams and fantasies. Just a sense of complete acceptance. She belonged with Bean, not the way that a wife belonged with a husband or, God forbid, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, but rather way the left hand belonged to the right. They simply fit. Nothing exciting about it, nothing to write home about. But it could be counted on. (Shadow of the Hegemon) Petra