16 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Friendship

Orson Scott Card quotes on friendship

37. I thought you were my friend. Whatever gave you that idea...? Because you - you didn't lie.

85. Not that they talked - [they] knew each other so well that there was often nothing to say. But without her there, [he] grew impatient with his own thoughts; they never came to a point, because there was no one to tell them to

247. I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate than even a kiss. Maybe. But not as fun.

275. There were times for absolute honesty between friends, but this wasn't one of them.

309. 'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.

340. Most men were like this - relatively unconnected, unbound, alone. But these men were particularly untrusting and ungiving, and so the bonds that held them to each other was fragile indeed. It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

430. I don't think what they made between them was what you or I would understand as friendship

445. He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends

446. Friends, a man and a woman. It was possible

511. Their thoughts were remarkably alike, as they worked silently toghether. This is what I want to do forever, each one thought. Rise in the morning, come to the mill, and work all day with him beside me. Never mind that the wish was impossible. Never mind that they might never see each other again, once the boy left for his apprenticeship back in the place of his birth. That only added to the sweetness of the moment, which would soon become a memory, would soon become a dream.

688. It was nice to be reminded that she was looking out for me almost as certainly as I always looked out for her

788. Gradually he began to realize that despite all the secrets she knew and all the strange powers that she seemed to have, she was not an angel or any other kind of supernatural being. She was a woman, still young, yet with a great deal of pain and wisdom in her eyes. She was a woman, and she was his friend. Why should that have surprised him? It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life

914. What [he] saw in his dream of her was the old [her], his best friend... Whose body was as lean as a boy's, [she] who was really his brother and sister, his teacher and his confidante. [she] who always understood everything and guided him past the really dumb mistakes of life and made him feel like everything was safe, if you were just smart enough and careful enough.

917. What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that woman all told each other long ago but men never get it.

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.

941. I'm very happy for you... True love is rare