11 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Agency

Orson Scott Card quotes on agency

26. Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

132. Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.

265. Somebody has to roll the dice. Mine are the hands that hold those dice. I'm not a bureaucrat, placing my career above the larger purposes I was put here to serve. I will not put the dice in someone else's hands, or pretend that I don't have the choice I have.

266. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life

589. What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

654. That's what's eating you alive. That you aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly

703. As long as my body did their bidding, what did it matter what I thought?

852. What a heavy burden to bear Heaviest because there's nothing I can do Then it's not your burden, is it? The opposite is true. The burden is heavier precisely because I can't do anything about it

900. But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. When a life spins out as joyfully as mine has done, then the price, once paid so painfully, is now recalled in gladness. I have received full value

1000. Who were they to play god with his life? They had been playing god with his life from the beginning

1009. You had no choice No, but you'd be amazed at how often people who have no choice act as if they had one, and lose everything because they could not bear to do what had to be done