11 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Choices

Orson Scott Card quotes on choices

115. How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

117. She's your other self. Will you really leave her for us?

119. 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.

178. She's just being a martyr no I'm not I'm being practical. You're being a fool.

179. You don't know that you're right. And you don't know that I'm wrong. It's my life. The hell it is.

184. A male does his best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible. I've done the wandering. Somehow I missed out on the copulating.

517. They didn't have to believe in you. They didn't have to choose to die. But they didn't know that's what they was choosing They knew. We always know. We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all the life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death

579. I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

919. [He] didn't know what he wanted, but he did know what he didn't want. What he didn't want was any of the girls at school. He had lots of friends who were girls. He liked them. Nice girls. Just not for him.

928. He felt sick with the sense of loss. What have I been doing all these years? How stupid can a reasonably bright guy be?

1055. The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered. Atlantis