4 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Attention

Orson Scott Card quotes on attention

41. His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his sadism made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others.

696. [Her] every movement betrayed the fact that she thought she was even uglier than in fact she was. Her shoulders slumped and she seemed to shrink as she walked, as if she hoped that if she became very unobtrusive enough she would entirely disappear. Of course her very ungainliness served only to call more attention to her, but I have learned that human adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.

760. How is it possible that stupidity should end our lives when our enemies' cleverest stratagems had not

846. Each incapable of knowing the others virtue, because like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others