5 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Expectation

Orson Scott Card quotes on expectation

34. It was a lie of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said that when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

599. Is that why you hate him so...? Because he knows the woman as she might have been?

756. She was sure [he] would follow her. [he] would bend to her as he had always bent, resilient and accommodating

911. I thought that when I trusted you, that meant you would always act the way I wanted you to.

936. Of course she wasn't going to call, he knew that.